Comment by Stan Walker(4th April 2008)

Enoch Taylor and his brother were local blacksmiths who made the first automatic cropping machines for use in the textile mills thereby causing loss of jobs thus leading to the Luddite uprisings in the area,the name Enoch was then used for the hammers used to smash these machines by the rioters using the slogan "Enoch made them and Enoch hath break them.

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Comment by Glynis Stevens(26th August 2009)

iread a great book about this it was very hard times when this happend very interesting time in our mill history, THANK you Stan

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