Excerpt from The Busy Hives Around Us
It is so customary to associate cramped space with town, that visitors are not at all prepared to wander over acres in one Of these establishments. Like the agriculturist, the princes of London trade tell their ground by acres; only the one metes his rent by the same rate, the other by the foot.
If the highly interesting personages with whom we began, are interested enough to seek one of these houses as a type, they will suffer their thoughts to send them forward, till on the left hand of Cheapside there is met with a lonely relic of living wood, still called, from veneration for age, a tree. It is the verdant decoration, for three weeks in the year, of Wood Street. Let our adventurous friends wonder, as they turn down, whether it gave the street its name. Again to the right, with Morley’s great hosiery house on one side, and Pickford’s mighty waggon-yards on the other; Swan with two Necks passed; Aldermanbury is reached and, in it, a high, new-fronted edifice will furnish every requisite for a picture of a London house, and at the same time be an exponent of the staple manufacture of the age. Of course we mean cotton. It needs a visit to Manchester to see the loom, and a visit to Man chester or Glasgow to see it printed. How it is disposed of eventually we can learn here.
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