Originally posted by johncorrigan
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Originally posted by Don Basilio
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When I was a little boy, we used to visit my mother's Aunt Louisa, a very elderly lady born sometime in the 1880s, I think. I know I was little because on the edge of a chest of drawers the top of which I could not see, were always a block packet of Callard & Bowser butterscotch (in a soft sky blue wrapping) and a half a crown. I had to feel for the coin to find it. Auntie Louisa worked in the mills from the time of her youth (though she was brought up on a farm) and I was told that she could work four looms simultaneously where the other women worked two.
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