- 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...
-
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...
-
lived in
Glasgow Vennel for nine
months in 1781–1782 and
worked as a
flax dresser.
Janice Galloway (born 1955),
writer and
former resident of the town...
- 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...
- quotation.[full
citation needed] At age 11,
Macansh was
apprenticed to a
flax dresser in Dunfermline. In his poem he
remembered ....that dark
winter morn when...
-
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...
- ill-health in 1824 on Herald's
maiden voyage. The Rev.
James Hamlin,
flax dresser and weaver, and his wife
Elizabeth arrived in
March 1826 with William...
