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    Ropemaking in Handsworth 1820s

    Hi to everyone who replied with so much wonderful information to my query in April and I'm so sorry I didn't realise a full and complete debate had happened, which I could have engaged in! More than anything I want to say THANK YOU for seeing the reference to "near the Red Lion Inn" in the 1829...
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    Ropemaking in Handsworth 1820s

    I'm researching a Thomas JACKSON (born 1806 to a ropemaking family in Ilkeston, Derbyshire). In the Birmingham Trade Directories of 1827, 1828, 1829 he is listed as a Ropemaker in Handsworth. This seems to be before the well-known Wright's ropemaking factory started there in the 1830s, which was...
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