Skilled manual workers : shoemaker, saddler, weaver, tailor, machine operator, blacksmith, carpenter, tanner, merchant, baker, chauffeur.
The remaining inhabitants are small tradesmen—saddlers, smiths, etc.
It also throws up and sustains hundreds of small businesses; for instance, vets, saddlers or vendors at the tracks.
Saddlers, for example, derive most of their income from hunt-related horse activity, which would reduce sharply if hunting were banned.
Farriers, horseshoe manufacturers, tack shops, saddlers, retailers, equestrian magazine publishers, specialist equipment suppliers, feed merchants and competition organisers will all be affected.
Supposing that in a county town there is a good saddler.
That, in turn, spills over to a whole spectrum of individuals, such as vets, insurers, farriers, feed merchants, transporters and saddlers.
The saddlers, the blacksmiths and other crafts which seemed in the past to be inseparable from our countryside are going.