Over the Way Finish:Stretched for road use

for road use

Old Division One

Saint Erkenwald was Bishop of London from 675 until his death in 693

Steve Seargeant and Colin Harvey

A small fire burns in the foreground

Over the Way Finish:Stretched for road use'Over the Way', 1861. At the time the American Civil War began, Britain imported the bulk of its cotton from the United States. President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire. By early 1862, some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton, mainly from India, were sought. Here we see