'Richard's shop soon became the fashion' mb-code IH183959 Edward Sackville (1591-1652)

Edward Sackville (1591-1652)

The view shows the north front of Somerset House and the Church of St Mary-le-Strand

for all their efforts neither of them has caught anything larger than a sprat

Just crossing the finishing the line

'Richard's shop soon became the fashion' mb-code IH183959 Edward Sackville (1591-1652)'Richard's shop soon became the fashion', 1750s, (1905). Richard Arkwright's barber shop undercut all the others. Arkwright, the Englishman credited with the invention of the water frame, worked as a barber until he was 28. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd, (London and Edinburgh, 1905). The book gave a very biased and pro British view of history.