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    Liverpool and Cotton

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    Bob Edwards
    , 08-04-2015 at 10:50 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    The first recorded cotton dealing in Liverpool was a newspaper advertisement for an auction of 28 bags of Jamaican cotton in 1759. Over the next seven decades a series of technological and industrial developments revolutionised cotton production. Liverpool enjoyed a physical proximity to the world centre of the industry
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