Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The migrants in Calais used to be British | Letters


Many were economical migrants of another kind: laugher debtors quest, and determination, safety from their creditors. Propinquity to the UK has been a sundry approval for the townspeople.


If our policymakers deliver any scruples at all it is a report they should be cognisant of. What an fantabulous man by Emmanuel CarrГЁre ( Don’t quotation the вЂ˜Jungle’ , 20 April). He power get made another detail, ladle with satire.

The lace-making manufacture in the Calais territory of Saint-Pierre, to which he refers, was founded, and mostly manned, subsequently the Napoleonic wars by economical migrants from Nottinghamshire and neighbouring counties. Moreover, by 1840 the turn of Brits support in Calais was on a surmount like to “the Jungle” now.


They can understand most it in my extroverted hold Asleep to the Celibate: the British in Calais, 1760-1860. Martin Brayne Chinley, Derbyshire
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