21 Aug
2016
21 Aug
'16
8:58 a.m.
Bessbrook and its Linen Mills, by J. Ewing Ritchie 52864 [Subtitle: A Short Narrative of a Model Temperance Town] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/8/6/52864 ] [Files: 52864-0.txt; 52864-h.htm] For those wishing to know: Temperance advocate James Ewing Ritchie went over to Ireland to see a model temperance town based on the Linen trade called Bessbrook, reporting what he saw etc. The pamphlet might have been an expanded version of one of his articles in Christian World - he was the editor. All the best, David, England with wet roads, cloudy skies and sunshine