Lille
Lille is a city in the north of France. Once know as the Manchester of France, because of its old textile mills. In the 1950’s it was a big coal-mining district, but recently the mines have dried up. Lille is most famous for its textiles as well but other countries make fabrics cheaper Lille- a short brief
And faster. One of Lille’s main businesses is a mail order company. They are the apparently the best in France.
Lille now has many advantages, main motorways that lead to other countries and around France, it has the euro star running through the city.
Lille is right by the border of Belgium. Which means many people can travel from Belgium to Lille for work. There are no more borders gates now. The E.U took them away so more people can travel to the city.
The modernisation of Lille took about £90 million pounds. The e.u paid about £5 million for the motorways.
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Page 1 – introduction and contents (your reading it)
Page 2 – how Lille has changed
Page 3 - businesses of Lille
Page 4 – canal map
Page 5 – table to show how many workers (inaccurate)
Page 6 - conclusion
Page 2 – how Lille has changed
Lille has changed in many ways, new roads, industries, offices and businesses. The whole conversion of Lille has made a big improvement on the place. More people can get work, more tourism and more people coming to life in the city. The city has wacky buildings, modern shopping centres and a new mail order that is the best in France. Which was converted from an old textile mill. First it just did clothes but now it did all.
Because of the new motorways, you can get to anyway in France from Lille. Great for the mail order company to deliver in 24 hours! Because Lille is so n...
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...rrocans. Many of them are having big trouble finding jobs, some of been waiting years for one.
There are plenty of offices but not enough people want to start up their own buissness or they do but they just haven’t got the money. But if Lille did manage to find some more labour then the city would greatly improve by a great deal.
But since the 1950’s Lille has become quite modern. Lille has suffered ww1 because its close to flanders, it has suffered ww2 because it was right on the border belguims where the germans invaded first because they could not get past frances east defences so they went in from the top. The city has suffered revolution and many more but the current one of course is not enough jobs.
I think Lille is quite a nice city though. If they play their cards right they could be as famous as their capital, Paris. Well not quite but close to it.
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