Over the Way Finish:Stretched Old Division One

Old Division One

Roy Dwight reassures new Coventry City boss Jimmy Hill that the leg he broke in the 1959 Cup Final is still good for a few more goals

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In the distance is the steeple of St Vedast

Over the Way Finish:Stretched Old Division One'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