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Lancashire Roots

Chapter 1 Contents

Figures ........................................................................................................... 7

The Setting ..................................................................................................... 9

Stretford ................................................................................................... 10

Historical Setting ...................................................................................... 15

Ashton under Lyne ................................................................................... 17

The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Lancashire .................................... 22

The New Life During Industrialisation ...................................................... 24

Women and Cotton .................................................................................. 25

Chartism ................................................................................................... 28

The Lancashire Cotton Famine .............................................................. 30

Poetry .................................................................................................... 31

The Cross St Chapel, Manchester ................................................................. 33

Historical timeline .................................................................................... 34

Cheshire 36

Wilmslow .............................................................................................. 36

Great Budworth ..................................................................................... 37

Little Budworth ..................................................................................... 38

West Halghton .......................................................................................... 39

Emigration ................................................................................................... 41

Stage 1 ...................................................................................................... 41

Stage 2 ...................................................................................................... 44

Americas Settlement.................................................................................. 44

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