Industrial Decline

Industrial decline There were few oak trees left in the valley they had been chopped down and used in the clog industry, ash trees were tried to make clogs, but it gave people foot disease, which manifested itself by causing webbed feet; excellent for swimming but not for walking. The Birch was tried, but workers refused to work with this type of the tree, the clog industry went bankrupt as more and more people preferred tennis shoes with a posh label. The valley declined they went to Lisbon to find work and some studied, became doctors and politicians, one can be both. It was a Paradise for the donkeys that roamed free from the harness and the pulling of a plough.