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serf
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does that area have a textile manufacturing history?
I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
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podgietaru
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It does indeed, probably the heart of it.
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jonwinstanley
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Yes. The North West and the midlands was where it all started. Cotton, mills, Industrial Revolution etc
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I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.