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Description: | Mr. John Whitaker was a pioneer of the rag trade, and was one of the first to use oil on rags for pulling purposes. He was a native of Batley and was born on May 20th 1817. In his early youth Mr. John Whitaker worked at a rag machine as a layer-on, but later started in business as a rag merchant on the site of what was to become the works of Messrs John Whitaker and Sons, near the bottom of Talbot Street. | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ |
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Publisher: | Kirklees | Rights holder: | Kirklees | Subjects: | Kirklees1 | Source: | Kirklees Image Archive OAI Feed | Identifier: | http://www.kirkleesimages.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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