He was a framework knitter and in 1881 was unmarried and living with his parents at Calverton.

By 1845 there were 300 people employed as framework knitters in the village.

Hinckley museum is in a range of 17th-century timber-framed framework knitters' cottages.

At least 118 Leicestershire villages and hamlets had framework knitters amongst their inhabitants by 1800.

Between 1833 and 1837 (inclusive) 61 per cent were framework knitters, but by 1867-71 the proportion had declined to 49 per cent.

The parish register records 91 men between 1813 and 1817 (inclusive), of whom 60, that is 2 out of every 3, were framework knitters.

By 1863-67 Syston's register shows that the proportion of framework knitters had declined to 25 per cent.

This, not the introduction of new machinery, was the grievance of the framework knitters.

William Hutton, apprenticed as a framework knitter, remembered great hunger, and in his case the mistress was his aunt.

Paris, who was once a framework knitter, made it to my design; he is working on one for you at present.