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Comment by serf

16 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.

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jonwinstanley  12 hours ago

Yes. The North West and the midlands was where it all started. Cotton, mills, Industrial Revolution etc

podgietaru  16 hours ago

It does indeed, probably the heart of it.

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