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| tanyard, Ambleside | ||
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tanyard | |
| coordinates:- | NY376045 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 132:- "... There is a tan-yard of pretty considerable account, managed lately by Mr William Holm, (now by his son,) who with honesty and industry accumulated a handsome fortune, and his family at present is the most flourishing one in Ambleside. What adds greatly to Mr Holm's merit is, that what he died worth was all gained by himself with a fair and honest character; for as he was a natural child, he could not be heir to any person; and I have heard him say, that after he married, for want of work in his own way, he, for bread, carded wool, and his wife spun it, till he could raise the price of four calf skins: with this stock, being in all about eight shillings, he begun his business, and died last year worth upwards of 8000 pounds, leaving a widow and two sons. Let me add, that Mr Holm never gave the least room to a suspicion of avarice; he constantly increased his family expence in the same proportion that his fortune increased, and before his death, kept a single-horse chaise for the use of his family; yet he was an equal enemy to profusion, and perhaps never was known in his life to do either an act of meanness or prodigality." |
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