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The Growth of Manchester, AD 79 until the Nineteenth Century

The first people to settle in Manchester were the   FrenchRomansGreeksSaxonsNormansIrish who built a fort around AD 79 in a place where it was possible to cross the River   MerseyThamesMetlockSevernTrentAire. They built a fort there which was still standing when they left in the   thirdfifthtenthseventhsixthtwentieth century. In the fourteenth century, some people came over from Europe and started a tradition of making   bicyclestelevisionsclothfootballsshoescarts. To begin with, they did this work in their homes and it was referred to as a   cottage factoryblack marketcottage pieworkhousecottage industryhomework. Around 450 years later, the  RussianCulturalAgriculturalFrenchEnglishIndustrial Revolution began and new machines such as the Spinning   SusanJosieKayleighPhoebeJanetJenny made it easier to weave more quickly. Cotton was also imported into   RamsgateBristolLiverpoolExmouthPortsmouthHull which could then be brought to Manchester by boat. Suddenly the factories were booming. People came from as far away as   NorwayIrelandPortugalFranceSpainGermany because of a terrible famine that had taken hold there. But it wasn't all good news! The workers were packed into buildings with no facilities called   skyscrapersmaisonettesretirement homespenthousesmansionstenements where they caught diseases like  the Black DeathCOVID-19malariacancercholerainfluenza and often died. The factory owners, however, did not live here but lived, instead, in the   suburbsCBDpriviescity centrecountrysideslums in large and comfortable homes.