Upstairs, they had lunch in the Messinger Room — the old courtroom of the 1854 museum building — while Holt, Susan Waller, Brenda Zimmerman and Kaye Brown Hirst shared stories, most of which had a historical or sentimental twist. Holt recounte
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New mills and factories were built and required labour to both build them in the first place and then to operate them. Jobs were there to be had and the pay was better in the towns than out in the countryside.” One of the earliest firms was fo