Over the Way Size:M: 50 x 40cm The general theme is the

The general theme is the downfall of City businessmen

Surmounted by an image of the church and flanked by chapels of ease in the margins

1st December 1971

exaggeratedly attenuated below the waist

Over the Way Size:M: 50 x 40cm The general theme is the'Over the Way', 1861. At the time the American Civil War began, Britain imported the bulk of its cotton from the United States. President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern ports caused Britain to suffer a 'cotton famine' which caused great distress to the workers in the mill towns of Lancashire. By early 1862, some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton, mainly from India, were sought. Here we see