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With the royal arms at top left

Fashion model Leslie Hornby

by the side of the quay holding up a basket of mackerel

Alastor is any of certain avenging deities or spirits

Over the Way mb-artistname Gunion With the royal arms at'Over the Way', 1861. At the time the American Civil War began, Britain imported the bulk of its cotton from the United States. President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire. By early 1862, some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton, mainly from India, were sought. Here we see