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IMPACT OF NATIONAL EVENTS
Harriet watched, from her bedroom window, the nocturnal processions down Chester Road which marked the relief of Ladysmith, the triumph of Mafeking, and the death of the old Queen. Old people still talked of the deaths at the Peterloo Massacre, and the suffering during the American Civil War - which cut off the supplies of cotton to the Lancashire mills, leaving the operatives without work. Meanwhile people looked on proudly at the prompt-to-the-minute horse-drawn mail-coach to Chester, and laughed at the early horseless carriages.
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