I enjoyed Ian Jack’s article on Scarborough cricket festival (Conviviality, sunshine and cricket, but then a shadow, Opinion, 30 June) but doubt that the town ever catered for worsted mill managers from Harrogate. Huddersfield prides itself on being the home of the finest worsted and its reputation amongst the moneyed classes is said to have saved the town during the Depression.
The suburb of Edgerton – where grand villas were built for the mill owners and other successful manufactures – still survives, unique amongst such areas in being virtually intact. The few mills still working in Huddersfield bear testament to the continuing reputation of local worsted. Quite a rant for a comer-in!
Caroline Cole
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
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