Peter
I still have my doubts. They bought 2,000,000 or so they said in a month. I
think it would take more than 1,000 man days to knock them in working very
quickly.
Swansea was a very small town at that time with an estimated population of
about 2500 including the children. I wonder how many carpenters they could
get to work on the building..
They paid 11s 2d for them. That is 7463 nails for a penny. Half a century
before lath nails were 250 for a penny.
Did the workmen know what a million was and that it was perhaps 1000 bags?
Could they count to 1000?
Did a million mean 1,000,000 or some lesser number, or was it not defined?
Did people use a million the way my young grandson does to mean a huge
indeterminate amount. Come to think of it I sometimes.use "millions" that
way.
Peter Hutchison.
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