tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2047387632277006433..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Cotton Mill Towns: Owner and WorkersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26432748811844264332010-09-27T06:00:52.663-07:002010-09-27T06:00:52.663-07:00The other side of the coin being that with the new...The other side of the coin being that with the new technologies that were adopted in US cotton spinning and weaving, the amount of labour expected was greater. US weavers looked after eight looms to the UK's four. <br /><br />But what killed the whole deal was selling Lancs looms to Indian and Japanese mill owners. The Japanese, of course, were more innovative and efficient and wiped the floor with the West. Who now remembers that Toyota started as loom makers?billymillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384818298267240803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21131421407048355762010-09-27T05:32:31.908-07:002010-09-27T05:32:31.908-07:00Billy,
Whrat's up, doc?
Do you suppose Coket...Billy,<br /><br />Whrat's up, doc?<br /><br />Do you suppose Coketown has a Facebook page?<br /><br />Keeping in mind that in these photos we are seeing the "best face" being put on things in locations where the assistance of government relief programs was crucial (thus naturally inclining the "subjects" to cooperate "positively" with the photographers, insofar as they may have been able).<br /><br />About the box, yes, washing machine is a possibility. Cooler may perhaps be another. Some sort of basic refigerating unit?<br /><br />About the machine as indication of relative luxury, the same point was made by a close observer here a few days back.<br /><br />Not to suggest that she was experiencing a tinge of envy toward Mrs. Hendry.<br /><br />"Back in the day," the circumlocutory term "appliance" covered so much territory.<br /><br />Desolation being a term of general application.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44365296247411579882010-09-27T01:26:46.407-07:002010-09-27T01:26:46.407-07:00Mreant to say watched that doc just last night!Mreant to say watched that doc just last night!billymillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384818298267240803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33602207478664565282010-09-27T01:26:11.882-07:002010-09-27T01:26:11.882-07:00Tom, watched a documentary on the English cotton i...Tom, watched a documentary on the English cotton industry and its collapse in the 20th C; the US being the envy of England at the time. <br /><br />And all things being relative, I can't but notice that Mrs. W.T. Hendry has a machine(a washing machine?) in her house; in Lancashire, I suspect that not all of the mill owners would have afforded that luxury back then.billymillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384818298267240803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54520855101714523252010-09-26T06:16:06.506-07:002010-09-26T06:16:06.506-07:00Thank you, Stephen, that was definitely a moon to ...Thank you, Stephen, that was definitely a moon to remember...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31064229173541990432010-09-25T07:23:01.959-07:002010-09-25T07:23:01.959-07:00Tom,
Thanks for these, world in black and white, ...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for these, world in black and white, workers and owner(s) still going on as time going on, sun just now coming up over ridge. . . .<br /><br /><br />9.25<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black <br />ridge, white circle of moon by branches<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> conceive time as temporality,<br /> spatial can be anything<br /><br /> trees in air, how leaves are<br /> transformed, still more<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />gulls flapping to the left toward ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com