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Swan Street, Sutton in Ashfield

Swan Street
Sutton in Ashfield
England

Showing dilapidated housing on Swan Street, facing onto Market Street and looking across Riley's Crofts. The houses have frameknitter windows on the upper floors. The stocking -frame was a hand operated machine about the size of a small loom or small upright piano and was used to knit stockings or hose, and other small articles of clothing like hats gloves and scarves or mufflers from wool, silk and cotton. The frame work knitters worked at home, and either had a frame shop or workshop in the garden or a special room often on the top floor of the house with a special extra wide window to let in the maximum light for the stockinger to work.

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Keywordshousesframeknitterwindowsbrokendilapidatedderelictpovertybrickdraindoorsterracetenementslums

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