Cleckheaton, Cheapside c.1965
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C263016
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In 1800, this was a small village bisected by one turnpike road. Within a few decades, the face of Cleckheaton had changed beyond recognition with the establishment of machine manufacturing. New streets began to be laid out as the town's population increased with the influx of new workers. By 1890, the town was the world centre of card clothing, the making of a device (a sheet of leather inset with wire teeth) to comb wool prior to being spun. Before the machines were invented, women and children as young as four set the wire teeth and were paid half a penny for every 1400 teeth carded.
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