Excerpt from Fortunes Made in Business, Vol. 2: A Series of Original Sketches; Biographical and Anecdotic From the Recent History of Industry and Commerce The hardy, vigorous, plain-spoken Yorkshire men who settled in this lofty region did not trouble themselves to think out euphonious or high-sounding names for the odd nooks and corners of the hill-side, which gradually became peopled as the locality developed into a manufacturing district. Spades were spades to them, and they christened their dwelling grounds, homesteads, and landmarks in con formity with their physical peculiarities or their special associations. For instance, there was Scarlet Heights, where local tradition said there had been a sanguinary fray be tween contending factions in the time of the Wars of the Roses. A field in the-same vicinity was called Bloody Ing, and a block of houses subsequently built thereon was styled Bloody Row. Then there was Nave Lane (since corrupted into Knave Lane), which obtained its title from the fact that no vehicle could plough through its quagmires and' bogs without Sinking to the nave of its wheels. Blackdike, Blackmires, Blackshaw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.