Worsted weaving roots in East Anglia and Norfolk
BBC English Magazine traces Worstead weaving from Flemish settlers around 1250 to Norwich dominance by the 15th century and peak by 1750. It notes Marman rich Paston letters, nobles wearing Worstead fabrics, and later shift to steam looms, with Yarmouth continuing textile craft through immigrant silk weavers.
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BBC World Service
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Dick Bagnall- Oakley
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Norfolk
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Edward Paston
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John Bolt
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South America
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Italy
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Bradford
Worstead
Yarmouth
Dick Bagnall-Oakley
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Hungary
Lancashire
Brain maturation drug debate from Dr Sargant
Dr William Sargant of St Thomas's Hospital London argues that brain and behaviour are linked and supports the idea of a drug to speed brain maturation. He recalls psychiatry twenty five years ago when behaviour was seen as spiritual rather than biological.
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Willam Sargant
St. Thomas's Hospital
London
Terylene Fibrefill Promises Dry Traps and Museum Mounts
A notice promotes Terylene fibrefill for lining live animal traps to keep small mammals dry and warm, citing a Canadian Wildlife Service scientist Andrew Radvanyt in the Canadian Field Naturalist. It also notes suitability for stuffing skins for museum mounts and mentions damp nesting materials.
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Canadian Wildlife Service
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Symon 8 Baler Repairs Near Rocanville Saskatchewan
Broken axles and shafts were welded, baler crankshafts straightened and welded at Symon 8 in Rocanville Saskatchewan. Repair work focused on restoring equipment function after damage.
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SYMON
Rocanville
Saskatchewan
Handbag contents trigger quarantine seizure at Port Aux Basques
A Newfoundland bound traveler admitted carrying plant materials in her handbag including five potatoes, 20 plant roots, a potted plant and soil. Inspectors from CDA Plant Protection Division confiscated and destroyed the items to prevent potato wart disease and the golden nematode from reaching the mainland.
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Port Aux Basques
Mfld
Newfoundland
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