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The main industries in Lancaster are agriculture (mainly crops and dairying), coal mining, salvage and textiles. The last had gone into serious decline in the years before Doomsday and by 1983 most of the area's cotton mills had been closed and the machinery scrapped. Following Doomsday the few surviving mills had lain idle for a number of years as the population focused on food production, but in the late 1990s the food situation had stablized enough to allow the workforce to diversify and with an increasing demand for textiles both within the Duchy and abroad (which at that stage meant the Celtic Alliance) the surviving wool and cotton mills were brought back on line, with the latter being adapted to process locally produced wool and bast fibres (hemp, linen, nettle etc) as cotton was no

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  • Duchy of Lancaster: Ecomomy and Trade (1983: Doomsday)
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  • The main industries in Lancaster are agriculture (mainly crops and dairying), coal mining, salvage and textiles. The last had gone into serious decline in the years before Doomsday and by 1983 most of the area's cotton mills had been closed and the machinery scrapped. Following Doomsday the few surviving mills had lain idle for a number of years as the population focused on food production, but in the late 1990s the food situation had stablized enough to allow the workforce to diversify and with an increasing demand for textiles both within the Duchy and abroad (which at that stage meant the Celtic Alliance) the surviving wool and cotton mills were brought back on line, with the latter being adapted to process locally produced wool and bast fibres (hemp, linen, nettle etc) as cotton was no
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  • The main industries in Lancaster are agriculture (mainly crops and dairying), coal mining, salvage and textiles. The last had gone into serious decline in the years before Doomsday and by 1983 most of the area's cotton mills had been closed and the machinery scrapped. Following Doomsday the few surviving mills had lain idle for a number of years as the population focused on food production, but in the late 1990s the food situation had stablized enough to allow the workforce to diversify and with an increasing demand for textiles both within the Duchy and abroad (which at that stage meant the Celtic Alliance) the surviving wool and cotton mills were brought back on line, with the latter being adapted to process locally produced wool and bast fibres (hemp, linen, nettle etc) as cotton was now unobtainable. Contact with other British survivour states opened up new markets for Lancastrian textiles and in 2006 two new mills (or, more accurately, old mills with new machinery) were opened, with three more due in 2011. The majority of mills are steam powered. Due to a number of coal mines being in the irradiated Greater Manchester area only a handful remained in operation after Doomsday. However, they still manage to provided enough fuel for domestic use, electricity generation and assorted steam engines with a relatively small amount (compared to the Cleveish coal industry) left over for export. In addition to the main industries there is also a small but growing leisure industry starting to emerge, mainly in the resort town of Blackpool, which mainly caters to the Lancastrian population and tourists from the Kingdom of Cleveland, the latter coming in on specially chartered trains which have been dubbed 'Smoggy trains' since an unknown Middlesbrough resident (or group thereof) tapped a sign saying 'Smoggies on tour' to the inside of a carriage window.
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