Work has started to bring one of Blackburn's most iconic mills back to its former glory. Imperial Mill was built in 1901 and stands alongside the Leeds-Liverpool Canal near to Whitebirk.

The mill produced cotton exported all over the world until the closure of the weaving sheds in the early 1990s ...

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 ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard ... in mills in Derbyshire and Lancashire and powered by ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...