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Originally Posted by Asa
I have a lot of musical string makers, sometimes harp or violin string makers in C19th London. Originally, I had this romantic notion that they'd brought this trade over from County Cork until I realised it related to them living in the shadows of Smithfields and then Islington Cattle Markets and that there's nothing romantic about the job at all.
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It was only when I found the man also manufacturing sausage skins, and creating a nuisance, I began to realise my own romantic notions of the chap I was researching were way out of line.