DUKE STREET

1712 LOWTHER Sir James
1821 JOHNSON & MANLEY
1829 JOHNSON Edward & Co

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SCOTCH STREET

1829 Johnston Edward (no.4)

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WHITEHAVEN

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Quote - "The town has a large number of ships and a large trade with America,
             particularly in tobacco leaves and raw sugar. Factories for working up
             these raw materials into rolls of tobacco, snuff and sugar tops have
             been established here. The master sugar refiner comes from Hamburg
             and knows his job well. Nevertheless, sugar is much more expensive
             here than in Hamburg, and when it costs 9½ pence a pound there,
             it cannot be sold in Whitehaven for less than 12 pence. To a great
             extent this difference is caused by the customs duty on the raw sugar,
             which amounts to 4 shillings and 9 pence per hundredweight."
 

 

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