Rope Industry

Rope is produced from hemp and sisal, and the manufacture of rope and twine in the West Riding increased as the linen industry declined from around 1850.

This Foldout collects entries which relate to the industry and those involved in it:

Beeton Rope Works, Stansfield Thomas Blackburn John Briggs & Sons George Nathan Brown John Clegg Jonas Clegg Samuel Fielden Clegg Martha, Sarah & John Clegg Coir John Crapper The Dundee Rope Company Fairlea Mills, Luddendenfoot Benjamin Farrar James Flather Joseph Frobisher William Frobisher Gill & Salmon James Greenwood & Son William Haigh Hawkins & Tipson Group Hemp Hemp industry Linen industry Lob Mill Rope Works, Langfield Market Hall Rope Works, Halifax Mill band Albert Ogden Pickles & Company Stephen Rawson George Robertshaw Rope race Rope, Twine & Net Making Rope walk Rope Walk, Wainstalls Sandholme Rope Works, Todmorden Sandhome Rope Walk, Todmorden Thomas Henry Scott Abraham Sharp Abraham Sharpe Square Mill, Wainstalls R. Sutcliffe Yorkshire Tail

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