One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop.

He eventually retired from the Hendon Ropery in 1878.

I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?

The Ropery (not surprisingly, where ropes were made) is a three-storey building of 1785, over a thousand feet long without any internal partitions.

His mother and or father apparently did not appreciate his shipbuilding disposition and preferred him to work in a ropery.

Eventually, West Ropery Banks was cleared.

The Ropery: a Grade I listed building, Georgian and Victorian rope factory.

Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: rosary / ropery)

Before the station became a terminus, the double-track railway took up the space now occupied by The Ropery (a road) and the car park to the east.

He also inherited a share of John Speddings ropery and invested in the Keswick Turnpike Trust.

The former location of roperies can still be identified from their long straight, narrow profile in the modern streets, for instance Ropery Street near Mile End.

Martin is next heard of working in a ropery at Howdon Dock, and in the following year he joined the Northumberland militia at Durham.

Ropery Lane is a cricket ground in Chester-le-Street, England round the corner from The Riverside Ground.

The town also has its own cricket club, Chester-le-Street Cricket Club based at the Ropery Lane ground.

Sir John stamped off, leading his horse, whilst Athelstan continued down Trinity into Walbrook, along Ropery to London Bridge.

Most Mondays and Thursdays the local Ilfracombe Sea Cadets meet near the harbour, in what was the old rope making factory on Ropery Road.

More recently, the suburban town was a centre for steel and brass manufacture, especially at the well known Pegler's Brass Foundry and Bridon Ropery.

The last barge to operate regularly in and out of Barton Haven was the former Humber keel the "Hope" which brought raw materials to Hall's Barton Ropery.

While representing Durham, he made his debut for Minor Counties North against Yorkshire in the 1972 Benson and Hedges Cup at Ropery Lane, Chester-le-Street.

A little trouble next morning- Seems that one Simon Legree licensed dealer in slaves, had sworn a complaint sgainst me alleging bodily harm, mental duress, and assorted ropery and dopery.

The chosen location was in The Teams area of Gateshead, a worked out clay pit (known as Johnsons Clay Hole) edged by Ropery Road and Derwentwater Road.

The North end of the ground had a small covered terrace, whilst the opposite Ropery Road (South) End was a small uncovered terrace (That latterly included a large totaliser scoreboard introduced with the greyhound racing).

Queen Margaret had already left in a blaze of colour, escorted by Catesby and Agrippa, riding along Ropery, then Vintry Street into Thames Street, where she would meet a troop of her brother's royal serjeants at Castle Baynard.

Galdós also shows a Balzacian interest in technology and crafts, for example the lengthy descriptions of the ropery in La desheredada or the detailed accounts of how the heroine of La de Bringas (1884) embroiders her pictures out of hair.

However, East Ropery Banks remains, is now designated as long-life property and seems to have recovered from some 8 years of planning blight through a combination of the re-availability of improvement grants and a strong market demand for small dwellings in central North Shields.