Timothy had moved from rural Ireland to the east coast of Scotland and had attained a degree of prosperity working for Customs and Excise.
Many Irish stonecutters who fled the famine of their homeland for Tuckahoe and, later, Italian workers enjoyed prosperity working in the quarries.
In three decades, a council executive told me last year, the area has slid from working-class "prosperity" to "working poverty".
Mr. Gore left little doubt about how he wants to put prosperity to work, but some of his more ambitious goals were vaguely defined.
This was the politics of prosperity at work -- even though prosperity, or at least the supercharged version of it that the nation was accustomed to, has taken a holiday.
Yet the disabled only received a cursory mention in the prosperity and work session of the Labour conference, set aside for issues of the labour market and benefits system.
The chancellor also used his speech - at the start of the prosperity and work debate - to pay tribute to his predecessor, "the longest serving chancellor in modern times and the most successful: Gordon Brown".
When we do this, we move from being a counter-movement, to the new guard -- the standard bearers of a widely accepted values system -- because the strategies for peace, happiness and prosperity simply work better.
Instead, they are done through donations to groups, such as ALEC, Heritage Foundation and Americans for Prosperity, which work to undercut the Production Tax Credit and state renewable energy standards because they are "costly".
"There is no path to growth and prosperity for working people which does not tackle the deficit," Mr Miliband hawkishly declared.Despite the tough language there is a large gap between the two main parties on fiscal policy the biggest since 1992, according to Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank.
