Similiar to Burnely this town is associated with cotton production through out the 1800's. This picture shows modern day Liverpool. Both Liverpool and Burnely were connected through the Liverpool-Leeds canal and were towns focused largely on merchandise creation and trade. This of course being a large part of the setting and problem in the Book, "the North and South". This would have been your average town with strikes similiar in th ebook as it worked a lot with cotton and other machinery. Pollution would have been very high. Liverpool however was more of the import town that received the raw cotton and then sent it else where like Burnely.

Again it is very useful to understand the setting and time period of the book. this would have been one of the bigger towns around. I found that as much as 25% of the population here would have been Irish, this could have been a big source for Irish workers throughout the strikes. 

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