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The economy of the village was based mainly on boots and stockings.

A whole family would work from morning until late at night for very meagre earnings.

Stocking makers worked ten, twelve and even fifteen hours a day at their frames, for seven or eight shillings per week.

Frame rents were high and varied from one shilling to three shillings per week.

Poverty and disease were rife.

In Hinckley there was a framework knitters strike in 1824.

Two years later, disorder in the town was quelled when a detachment of lancers arrived, killing one man.