 | 1797 - 614 pages
...opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging -what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pack-horsts brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West-Riding of Yorkshire. On tlje improvement of turnpike roads waggons were set... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...sell their goods to the shopkeepers,—bringing back with them sheep's wool, which was disposed of to the makers of worsted yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was only towards the close of the seventeenth century,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1835 - 838 pages
...sell their goods to the shopkeepers — bringing back with them iheep's wool, which was disposed of to the makers of worsted yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was only towards the close of the seventeenth century,... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pack-horses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On the improvement of turnpike-roads, waggons were set... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pack-horses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddlcworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On the improvement of turnpike-roads, waggons were set... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1860 - 576 pages
...opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The packhorses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On the improvement of turnpike-roads, waggons were set... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1860 - 576 pages
...opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The packhorses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the journey, and sold to the makers of worsted yam at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Canals - 1864 - 388 pages
...pack-horses to distribute the goods and bring back wool, which they either xised up themselves, or sold to makers of worsted yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, or the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Walker, author of the 'Original,' left the following... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1866 - 476 pages
...shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns.t The pack-horses brought back sheeps' wool, which was bought on the journey, and sold to...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.' J In 1702, one of the t There is a tradition that in... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 pages
...opened and sold to shop-keepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pnck-horses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the...yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworlh, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On the improvement of turnpike roads, wagons were set... | |
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When the Manchester trade began to extend, the chapmen used to keep gangs of pack-horses and accompany them to the principal towns with goods in packs, which they opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The... 
