In Sunderland, we had two. Shipbuilding and coal mining.
Did you know that Sunderland used to be the biggest shipbuilding town in the world at one time?
2007-10-27 11:46:30 · 23 answers · asked by elflaeda 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I'm in Edinburgh , it was banking and printing. Still banking and finance but the printing has gone
(Got a couple of friends up here now that originally come from Sunderland, been to visit, I love the place, and we gave you Craig Gordon H'WAY THE LADS )
2007-10-27 12:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by EdinItalia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it depends on when or how far you go back. Glasgow was a place for heavy industry like sunderland, newcastle and liverpool. It was famous for textiles and very much so carpets, also tabaco and shipbuilding. Many many years in the past it attracted people from all sorts of places who came to the surrounding area for farming work. Back in those days workers would have a cottage on which ever estate they worked on. This gave way to mining which saw an end to the bigger estates that were swallowed up by the cities fast growth and development. We have a whole new range of modern industrties now that focus on hospitality and the care industry. I`m saddened by the decline of the industries that made this city what it is today but then we all have to move on. Incidently I spent a while working in sunderland many many many years ago and it is indeed a fine city.
2007-10-29 14:42:25 · answer #2 · answered by finn mchuil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in south/east Kentucky...coal mining is the biggest industry around here. My great grandpa was called a "pioneer" in the coal mining industry...we owned these big coal barges and such. My papaw got black lung from it all.
Nope, I didn't know Sunderland use to be the biggest shipbuilding town in the world.
2007-10-27 18:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by Isis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liverpool has a bit of shipbuilding, but you are going to have to put down the docks as the biggest generator of income in the history of the city, and Slavery being the biggest slice of that pie.
2007-10-28 08:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coal mining, I'm from Durham. Yes I did know that about the shipbuilding.
2007-10-27 18:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leeds (West Yorkshire) was THE centre of the tailoring industry but since about the 1960s when, among other factors, cheap imports started to filter in and eventually flood the market, that particular industry has declined and the major factories have all gone. Now the main thrust of the economy is in the financial and business services industries.
2007-10-27 20:45:24 · answer #6 · answered by Dolores & the prune 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Northeastern Pennsylvania was know for anthracite coal. The coal is gone. The land was raped and pillaged by strip mines. Gradually we are repairing the damage.
2007-10-27 21:34:53 · answer #7 · answered by SavvySue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clouds! Yes I live in an area where there are two giant - so called - power plants and out of the huge chimneys are manufactured clouds which fill our skies. On a clear day you know they're on strike.
2007-10-27 19:50:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coal mining in Nottingham
2007-10-27 18:51:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once apon a time it was apples, these days its tourism and forestry. We do make boats here too, hi speed catamarans and we're also the home port for a fishing fleet.
Come on down!
2007-10-27 21:10:28 · answer #10 · answered by Andrew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋