- The
Flax Dressers'
Trade Union was a
trade union representing better paid
linen workers in the
north of Ireland. The
union was
founded in 1872 as the...
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interchangeably at present. As a farmer,
Robert Burns grew
flax, and
during 1781 he took work as a
flax-
dresser in a
heckling shop, to try his
alternative career...
- The town
became a
haunt of
Robert Burns,
after he
briefly worked a
flax-
dresser in a
heckling shop near the
Glasgow Vennel. Two
streets in the town are...
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learn to
become a
flax-
dresser, but
during the workers'
celebrations for New Year 1781/1782 (which
included Burns as a parti****nt) the
flax shop
caught fire...
- was
based at Engineers' Hall on
College Street in Belfast,
where the
Flax Dressers'
Trade Union and the
Power Loom Tenters'
Trade Union of
Ireland also...
- engineer. He was born in
Edinburgh on 22
January 1793. His
father was a
flax dresser.
Anderson was a
pupil of
James Jardine. ****isted by
Jardine and the work...
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December 1725. He the
youngest of
eight children of John Lambert, a
flax dresser, and his wife
Susan Bray. The
family moved to Cliffe, near Lewes, about...
- was
founded in 1774 by
James Backhouse (1720-1798), a
wealthy Quaker flax dresser and
linen manufacturer, and his sons
Jonathan (1747-1826) and
James (1757-1804)...
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grocers and
spirit dealer 4
mason builders 1
miller 1
tailor 1
vintner 1
flax dresser 2 blacksmiths. The
village was thriving, but
Dirom never completed his...
- cork-cutter at the age of thirteen, he
worked as a sailor,
carpenter and
flax-
dresser.
After developing interests in
reading and mathematics, he
opened a school...
