Guided Tours of Suffolk's Past
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All Change

The new industries were:

• silk mills, set up in the Sudbury area, as firms moved out of Spittalfields, in London
• the manufacture of brushes and seating material, from horse-hair rope-making (there is still a Rope Walk in Ipswich)

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A rope-twisting machine, used at Haverhill from 1920 to the 1970s.

The staff at Whittles mat factory, Long Melford, in the 1890s.

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Beer and Bacon