Dutchman,
I doubt it, I think it was 1937 when a party of councilors and a army officer came to house and demanded to look at our bedrooms. Then they said to my father, your teenage daughter will have to move in with the boys and we will billet two army men in your house and that's what happened. So we had two army guys with us for a few months, so did other houses. They cleared the turf from the field opposite us, put up barrack huts and made the great gun-site to protect the power station. A smaller gun-site in the fields behind us were a bofors gun to protect the larger one. So now we had this great gun in front and the chatter of the gun behind. The noise of the large gun shook the earth and kept us awake. The soldiers left three years later and my sister was in the army on one of these sites in south London.
rebbonk
In the 17th century there were so many horses that used Rope. The canals started, so more Rope. So Coventry started it's own rope business,--- great. Bales of flax and Hemp were brought from the country to the basin, placed in a huge warehouse. Bboys would take the bales on wheel barrows to young girls with spinning wheels. From there the strands would be taken up by men, so many strands to what thickness of rope. The man walked backwards keeping the rope of the floor. It was placed in a hole on a trestle that twisted the strands. The man still walked backwards placing the rope in smooth grooves on the trestle to keep it off the floor so there were a number of trestles as the man carried the rope. The farther he got from the spinners the heavier the weight. At the right length other men took it from him, made coils and the boys then wheeled it back to the warehouse, collected more flax for the spinners. The men possibly walked backwards 60 yards or more, could only work in dry weather.