Mudcat Café message #1683103

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Thread #89281 Message #1683103
Posted By: Abby Sale
02-Mar-06 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Mar 2 (Albion Mills burn)
Subject: happy? – Mar 2 (Albion Mills burn)

The steam powered Albion Mills burn down,3/2/1791. The common people didn't much mind.


          When it broke out the people ran,
          'Where is the fire now?' says one,
          At the A----n Mills, the people say,
          Why d--n it let it burn away!
          For its destruction who does care,
          For it has been wished many a year;
          For the bread it such a price did keep,
          Now let's hope it will be more cheap.
  
                  "The Baker's Glory," (a broadside) in A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer