Monday 5 December 2011

5th December 1811: Frames broken at Basford & in Nottingham

Little more than a day after the meeting of the manufacturers, Luddites struck in Nottingham itself, at a workshop in Tyler Street 'which was working goods to an inferior price'.1

On the same evening, 4 frames were broken at Basford.2

1. Quoted from the Nottingham Review of 6th December 1811.
2. Nottingham Review 6th December 1811.

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