Spinner's End in Real Life (and a trailor tip)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 136682

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale" 
<saraquel_omphale at y...> wrote:

> Anyway, the description of the type of houses and the mill chimney 
are classic north of England.  Manchester (in the then county of 
> Lancaster) was the centre of the cotton milling industry and was 
the cradle of the industrial revolution. Leeds was the centre of the 
wool industry. The Spinning Jenny (a mechanised loom) was invented 
in the mid to late 18th Century and caused riots, as before that 
time, people had spun cloth in their homes.  But it's invention 
(plus steam technology) brought about the building of mills to 
process both wool and cotton. (Snip)> 
> The houses which were built for the mill workers all across the 
north of England were small and (Snip)> 
> The description of Snape's house and the area which the sisters 
walk through, is very much an area of either terraced or back to 
back housing.  

Tonks:
I wonder if there is any connection between the actually 
place "Spinners End" and goats and socks and DD's brother and DD's 
Mirror of Erised socks, and then Snape tossed in too.  JKR has 
certainly used a play on words for the location of Snape's house and 
what Snape himself is (a spinner of lies, traps, webs, etc. And the 
fact that his taking the vow is his *end*).

It probably means nothing, but reading your post just caused those 
little flashes to go off in my mind..  (flash) wool= socks  =  
goats? = DD's brother  ETC.  I just wonder if there is more to it. I 
wish we knew more of the back story on socks, goats and brother. 
(yes I know wool comes from sheep, but goat hair is used for weaving 
too.)

Any thoughts?                   

Tonks_op