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• County Durham
  ...spennymoorsettlement.co.uk]</ref> The settlement operated during the Great Depression, when unemployment was widespread and economic deprivation rife; Spennymoor
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• Renfrewshire
  ...shire]] border and that of [[Lanarkshire]] on the south-east are there any great heights in Renfrewshire and the county's surface is undulating rather than ...es on the Clyde in the late twentieth century left much of Renfrewshire in depression.
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• Newport, Monmouthshire
  ...ming into it, well occupied with small crays [merchant ships] where a very great ship may resort and have good harbour." Trade was thriving with the nearby ...Glamorgan|Barry]]), Newport was the place where the Miners' Federation of Great Britain was founded in 1889, and international trade was sufficiently large
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• Campbeltown
  ...tity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business. Today
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• Manchester
  ...s concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and ...s golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the 19th century. Many of the great public buildings (including the grand, gothic Town Hall) date from that tim
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• Glasgow
  ...cotland/letter12-2.html Letter XII] from "A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain" by Daniel Defoe.</ref> At that time, the city's population numbere ...First World War, the city suffered from recession and later from the Great Depression. Radical socialism and the "Red Clydeside" movement gained hold amongst th
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• Stockport
  ...making it the third biggest employer, after textiles and engineering. The depression of the 1930s and changes in fashion greatly reduced the demand for hats, an ...ury]]. The family occupied the building until 1823.<ref>{{citation|title=1 Great Underbank |url=http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.asp
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• Newquay
  ...nd heritage cottages, leading to the Boating lake. This was dug during the depression of the 1930s as a work creation scheme. In the late 1960s, further enterpri Towan, Great Western and Tolcarne beaches nearer the town and nearby Crantock and Waterg
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• Whitehaven
  ...t young in trade.''<ref>Daniel Defoe: ''A tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain''.</ref> As with most mining communities the inter-war depression was severe; this was exacerbated for Cumberland by Irish independence which
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• Hartlepool
  ...eloped as fishing, making Hartlepool one of the major ports in the east of Great Britain. Hartlepool suffered badly in the Great Depression of the 1930s and suffered high unemployment until the start of the Second W
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• Saddleworth
  The Great Depression struck Saddleworth's textile industries hard and it did not fully recover.
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• Oldham
  ...s population was employed within the textile sector, compared to 5% across Great Britain.<ref name="Foster">{{cite book|last=Foster|first=John|title=Class S ...reign yarns grew during the 20th century, Oldham's economy declined into a depression, although it was not until 1964 that Oldham ceased to be the largest centre
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• Great Britain
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• River Clyde
  ...g yacht, a 46-ton cutter, was built by Scotts of Greenock in 1803, and the great Scottish yacht designer William Fyfe did not start designing yachts until 1 ...n for the First World War and the yard remained busy even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, as many wealthy businessmen developed a passion for yacht rac
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• East Kilbride
  ...of post war settlement it created. In turn this was followed by the Great Depression. After the Second World War, Glasgow, already suffering from chronic shorta ...g/APF001971/Downie/Downie12/Downie12.html ''The Disappointing New Towns of Great Britain'']
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• Llandrindod Wells
  ...and refugees and wounded soldiers were accommodated in the town. The Great Depression of the late-1920s and 1930s led to many hotels and boarding houses being tu
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• Coatbridge
  ...iron industry in Coatbridge was in rapid terminal decline. After the Great Depression the Gartsherrie ironwork was the last remaining iron works in the town. On ...r "bing" from the Baird's Gartsherrie works was said to be as large as the great pyramid in Egypt. One son, James Baird, was responsible for erecting sixtee
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• Farnham
  ...tle on the edge of the settlement when Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, routed the heathen. Farnham appears in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Ferneham'', one of the five great minster churches in Surrey. Its Domesday assets were: 40 hides; 1 church, 6
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• Hindhead
  ...to 1907 and it was here that he wrote some of his most famous books: ''The Great Boer War'', ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', ''The Adventures of Gerard'' ...ename his house. Although higher up the hill, Conan Doyle's house is in a depression and a detailed measurement showed that George Bernard Shaw's house did inde
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• Swirl How
  |picture caption=Swirl How from Great Carrs ...ge is precipitous, curving around the head of Greenburn. On the journey to Great Carrs the path passes a memorial. This is the site of a wartime aircrash an
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