ABSTRACT
Over the last 100 years whole industries have been swept away, and entirely new ones have come from nowhere. Caring for horses used to be one of the biggest service industries, with numerous stables in every town. Horse breeding was a large industry. On the light industrial side, tens of thousands of people earned their living by making harnesses and other equipment for horse-drawn vehicles. At the heavy end of the manufacturing spectrum, shipbuilding firms were thriving at ports everywhere in Britain. These were once major industries; today they have almost vanished.
