Entries for the tag ‘Hustler, John (1715-90)’
Bradford-based Quaker entrepreneur active in woollen textiles, mining, turnpikes, canals (Liverpool and Leeds) and banking, leading Bradford's conversion from village to global city. 
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
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