said that till this year his garden has been so flooded that they have had to use a boat to get to the house. Mrs S. said she had often fished from their balcony . . . The weather had become very cold, but . . . they were all rejoicing in the rapid lowering of the flood waters – the mud was some-thing terrible whilst I was there.

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said that till this year his garden has been so flooded that they have had to use a boat to get to the house. Mrs S. said she had often fished from their balcony . . . The weather had become very cold, but . . . they were all rejoicing in the rapid lowering of the flood waters – the mud was some-thing terrible whilst I was there.

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ABSTRACT

B. & S. Massey, of Lees Street, Openshaw, fed that main pipe, balanced by Saxon’s, the mill-engine manufacturers round the corner. There was another balance. Saxon’s were the mainstays of Openshaw’s United Methodist Free church; Massey’s, of Lees Street Congregational church.