At this point in history, many of the mills that defined the landscape were either abandoned or repurposed and the cotton industry that had built Lancashire towns like Oldham was falling behind ...

The imposing former cotton mill was designed by Lancashire-born architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott and was still producing cotton as late as the 1980s. Since then, only the ground floor has remained in ...

Shuttles, Steam and Soot: A cotton mill in Lancashire by Daniel Meadows is on show at Four Corners on Roman Road in Bethnal Green, London, until 29 March 2025.

Gandhi therefore took the time to see what conditions were like for Lancashire cotton workers. As ever, Gandhi was in sympathy with the working people, though not so with the mill-owners.

one representing the cotton and weaving industries of Lancashire and the other representing Yorkshire woollen mills, engineering and agriculture. Underneath are friezes which show the industries ...

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It was one of many similar machines installed in mills in Derbyshire and Lancashire and powered by ... money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machines Comments are closed ...

For most people today, it’s hard to imagine what life was like in the years just after the Second World War. At this point in history, many of the mills that defined the landscape were either ...