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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: bleckie on Tuesday 08 November 22 13:52 GMT (UK)
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HI All
Can anyone tell me the name of the town or village named after England
Yours Aye
BruceL
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Manchester?
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Manchester
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Another vote for Manchester.
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I agree
Kay
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Thank You all.
I shall commit to your superior Knowledge
Now I just have to find her Birth and how she ended up in Dundee of all places.
Many Thanks.
Yours Aye
BruceL
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We all end up in Dundee eventually.
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According to the allegorical old Scots Folk Song 'The Road and the Miles tae Dundee ' all our parents must have travelled the road and the miles tae Dundee as it tells of the mutually agreed and satisfying cross-seduction of a young couple in the vicinity of Dundee.
Cauld winter was howlin' o'er moor and o'er mountain
Wild was the surge on the dark rolling sea,
When I met about daybreak a bonnie young lassie,
Wha asked me the road and the miles to Dundee.
Says I, "My young lassie, I canna' weel tell ye
The road and the distance I canna' weel gie.
But if you'll permit me tae gang a wee bittie,
I'll show ye the road and the miles to Dundee".
At once she consented and gave me her arm,
Ne'er a word did I speir wha the lassie might be,
At length wi' the Howe o' Strathmartine behind us,
The spires o' the toon in full view we could see,
She said "Gentle Sir, I'll never forget ye
For showing me so far on the road to Dundee".
So I took the gowd pin from the scarf on my bosom
-And said "Keep ye this in remembrance 0' me
Then bravely I kissed the sweet lips o' the lassie,
E'er I parted wi' her on the road to Dundee.
So here's to the lassie, I ne'er forget her,
And lika young laddie that's listening to me,
O never be sweer to convoy a young lassie
Though it's only to show her the road to Dundee
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Many things took people to Dundee. The home of the three 'J"'s. Jute, jam and Journalism.
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Thank You all.
I shall commit to your superior Knowledge
Now I just have to find her Birth and how she ended up in Dundee of all places.
Many Thanks.
Yours Aye
BruceL
They were both weaving towns, so that may be a link
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My years living in Manchester and Salford led me to think Manchester didn't produce any cotton products so much as dealt in them with production taking place in the towns around it. Dundee,on the other hand, was filled with jute mills taking in a large number of labour from elsewhere. On the other hand Manchester was the northern centre of news publishing and Dundee the home of Thomson publishing empire.
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My years living in Manchester and Salford led me to think Manchester didn't produce any cotton products so much as dealt in them with production taking place in the towns around it.
There were 108 cotton mills in Manchaster (aka Cottonopolis) by the mid 1800s
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As I thought after a peak in the 1850's the mills declined in Manchester and spread out to the towns around leaving Manchester as the dealing centre, hence Cottonopolis.
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Manchester is the term used for cotton goods in many European languages...
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I can well believe that as Manchester is covered in huge Victorian warehouses, now converted into all sorts of different uses after being very run down when I lived there in the '70s.
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Manchester is the term used for cotton goods in many European languages...
Yes of course. Manchester/environs also had factories that wove silk. Including jacquard looms.