SAME VILLAGES SUPPLIED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 6 August 1941, Page 8

SAME VILLAGES SUPPLIED

NELSON’S SAILS AND 1.000 MILES OF FIRE HOSE To fight the Nazis’ rain if incendiaries on Britain one thousand miles of fire-, hose have been turned out since the war began by the weavers in a north ' of England village. Here craftsmen were weaving on their hand looms two hundred years I before the mill from which it came began th*» manufacture of up-to-date canvas hose. They made by hand the I sailcloth, the tradition runs, for Nel- ; son's famous flagship "Victory”. The mill in which their descendants work has produced more than eight thousand miles of fire-hose by modern ! machine methods. One order was for two hundred miles of it. It was in this same village that two brothers, working in a cellar, wove the I first circular tube which eventually led ' to the making of flax hose-piping. They ' hit on the idea when trying to discover a simpler way of making purses.