There were riots against the industrialisation that was forcing people from the farms to the factories; there were protests for Parliamentary seats for the new industrialised towns in the Midlands and the north of England; and there were bread riots.
It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and among the first ever industrialised towns, rapidly becoming "one of the most important centres of cotton and textile industries in England".
Treatment centre user, age 45, Private sector provider, South Wales [valleys ('valleys' refers to the South Wales valleys, characterised by post-industrialised towns and smaller communities, formerly mining, steel and heavy industry based) and rural].
Runcorn was becoming an industrialised and highly polluted town.
I realise now there's more than one way to sneak up on a herd of cattle…" Waits is sitting in the back room of a roadhouse near his home town of Santa Rosa, where the industrialised farmscape north of San Francisco starts becoming wine country.
Real England: The Battle Against the Bland, by Paul Kingsnorth (Portobello, £7.99) Compelling account of the stripping of many of the UK's most precious assets, from wildflower meadows to secondhand bookshops, in favour of industrialised farming serving huge supermarkets in out-of-town retail parks.
Although the town of Ghent, a centre of cotton production in Flanders, industrialised rapidly, the effects of the Industrial Revolution were most felt in Wallonia, particularly in the cities of Mons, Charleroi, Liège and Verviers.
Most industrialised countries are ageing.
Cholera appears even in industrialised countries.
This is applicable only to industrialised countries.
