It is a fishing town, with a large royal school of lacemaking employing some 500 girls.
It has a school of lacemaking, foundries, and manufactures of machinery, tin-plate and cotton goods.
braid making and tassels, crochet, lacemaking.
Lacemaking For 300 years Olney was at the heart of bobbin lacemaking For 300 years Olney was at the heart of bobbin lace making industry in the area.
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