... thatManchester also had a thriving market in art in the form of bothoriginal paintings and prints.⁸⁸ In addition to shopping, the press alsorevealed that the inhabitants of northern towns pursued a ... were not included in this study.surprisingly little about service, retailing, and small-scale manufactur-ing industries in the industrial towns of the north of England. Moreover, we remain largely ... particularly marked. In such condi-tions, the middling sort were especially prominent, as the uniqueIntroduction4⁵ See, among others, Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business,Society...