Comment by serf
17 hours ago
does that area have a textile manufacturing history?
I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
17 hours ago
does that area have a textile manufacturing history?
I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
Yes. The North West and the midlands was where it all started. Cotton, mills, Industrial Revolution etc
It does indeed, probably the heart of it.