From: Nigel Harrison, Chevins Close, Batley.
Well done to Andrew Vine, in his column on October 3, for encouraging us all to promote Yorkshire's rich industrial heritage. However, let's give credit where it is due. His article suggests Dewsbury was a pioneer of recycling with its contribution to the development of shoddy and mungo cloth, a process of combining woollen rags with new wool fibres to make a much cheaper cloth. That honour goes to the neighbouring town of Batley.
Together, in secret and over several years, they purchased rags from all over the country, developed the machinery necessary to grind rags to the required standard and experimented with the relative quantities of new and used fibres needed to weave a usable cloth. The secret came out around 1813 when local lads found bundles of Tam o' Shanter hats from Scotland in Parr's mill yard.
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