Editing Lisburn (section)

===The Huguenot and the linen trade===
[[File:Barbour-hilden.jpg|thumb|right|Barbour's Hilden Mills, c 1880]]
Lisburn prides itself as the birthplace of [[Irish linen|Ireland's linen industry]]. While production had been introduced by the Scots, the arrival in 1698 of Huguenot refugees from France brought more sophisticated techniques, and government support.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bardon|first=Jonathon Bardon|title=The Plantation of Ulster|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|year=2011|isbn=9780717147380|location=Dublin|pages=322}}</ref> Even as it raised [[Import duties|duties]] on Ireland's successful woollen trade (with the concurrence of the subordinate [[Parliament of Ireland|Irish Parliament]]),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Restrictions on Irish Trade and Manufacture – Concise History of Ireland|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/Restrictions.php|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Libraryireland.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510092534/https://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/Restrictions.php|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Parliament of England|English Parliament]] removed them on all Irish articles of [[hemp]] and flax, and the government gave [[Louis Crommelin]], "overseer of the royal linen manufacture of Ireland", money to promote their production.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Crommelin, Samuel-Louis|volume=13}}</ref>

The Huguenot retained their own place of worship, the "French Church" in Castle Street, until 1820. The last of its pastors, Saumarez Dubourdieu, was 56 years Master of the Classical School of the Bow Street. His students subscribed to his memorial and bust on the south interior of the cathedral.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saumarez Dubourdieu|url=https://huguenotsinireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Who-Was-Saumarez-Dubourdieu.pdf|access-date=15 May 2021|website=huguenotsireland.com}}</ref>

Large scale manufacture began in 1764 when William Coulson established his first linen looms close by is now the Union Bridge. His mill supplied [[damask]] to the royal courts of Europe and, in the early nineteenth century, was to draw celebrity visitors, among them [[Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia|Grand Duke Michael of Russia]], [[Gustaf V|Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden]], [[Louis Napoléon Lannes|Louis Napoléon Lannes duc de Montebello]], the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] and [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Lord John Russell]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|last=Bayly|first=Henry|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/history_of_lisburn/topographical_and_historical.htm|title=Topographical and Historical Account of Lisburn|year=1834|location=T Mairs|access-date=24 September 2021|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026193929/http://lisburn.com/books/history_of_lisburn/topographical_and_historical.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

To carry the town's new trade, construction of the Belfast-Lisburn section of the [[Lagan Canal]] began in 1756. Despite problems of low water levels during the summer, the canal (extended in 1794 to Lough Neagh) continued to carry bulk cargoes until 1958.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=The History Of Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|access-date=2021-05-06|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193509/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1784, the Scotsman John Barbour began spinning linen thread, and in 1831 his son William moved production to what had originally been Crommelin's [[Bleach Green|bleach green]] at Hilden. By the end of the century Barbour's Linen Thread Company was the largest mill of its kind in the world employing about 2000 people to work 30,000 spindles and 8,000 twisting machines. The company had built a model village for the workers, with 350 houses, two schools, a community hall, children's playground and a village sports ground.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=McCreary|first=Mark|date=2017-05-03|title=Haunting movie and gallery show immense Hilden factory left to decay|url=http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/ruin-mill-haunting-movie-gallery-12977651|access-date=2021-05-06|website=BelfastLive|language=en|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507033523/https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/ruin-mill-haunting-movie-gallery-12977651|url-status=live}}</ref>