NORTH COUNTRY - BY EDMUND VALE - FOREWORD - WHEN reducing several thousand square miles of topography and humanity to thirty-seven thousand words, one has to consider whether it is better to fit a single broad picture in a set mosaic or to offer the reader the requisite number of cubes ready-made in their proper shades of local colour for him to shape his own picture out of. I have chosen the last course, not altogether because it is obviously the easiest, but because it seems to me that it would be rash for any one to set ...
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NORTH COUNTRY - BY EDMUND VALE - FOREWORD - WHEN reducing several thousand square miles of topography and humanity to thirty-seven thousand words, one has to consider whether it is better to fit a single broad picture in a set mosaic or to offer the reader the requisite number of cubes ready-made in their proper shades of local colour for him to shape his own picture out of. I have chosen the last course, not altogether because it is obviously the easiest, but because it seems to me that it would be rash for any one to set a final pattern for the North of England at the moment. It is in a state of flux. Industry, agriculture, and the workers in both are all moving house. In trade, economic combines are forming which will alter the centres of industry. In agriculture, stock-farming is rapidly taking the place of growing crops-whether grain or roots-and towns and villages alike are all being rebuilt. At the same time the outside world is in a greater state of flux than has been known for a long while in history, and whatever turn things take the results are bound to have what politicians call important repercussions on the pattern of our mosaic. So I have contented myself in giving what seems to me the most important particulars about life in the North of England and about the countryside itself where they seem to differ from equivalents in the South. The account is expressed largely in the present tense, and that should be understood to mean the Year of Grace one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six. -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT . CHAP. I. NORTH COUNTRY 11. INDUSTRY . IRON . COAL . TEXTILES. 111. TOWNS . IV. NO MANS LAND V. OPEN COUNTRY . i PENNINE . ii WEST OF PENNINE . iii EAST OF PENNINE . iv NORTH OF PENNINE INDEX ... Vlll PAGE . v1 . vii 2 SUMMER AT GRASMERE 3 THE MOORLAND FARM NORIH-3E COUNTRY CHAPTER I NORTH COUNTRY -- IN the days of that unique and princely railway, the Idondon and North-Western, the down Irish Mail was always chdlenged at Crewe by an official with a stentorian voice who shouted Change for Wigan, Preston, and the North And I used to think that he, himself, knew as well as my fellowtravelling companions who tried to 1001 as if they didnt that something indescribably stirring and romantic had been announced. The invocation, its rhythm, and the last ringing emphasis always struck me as one of those queer phrases which accideitally express a great truth obliquely-there was something solemn and befitting about it...
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