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Ancoats BrotherhoodRecreation in Ancoats. Page 15. The Old Chartist, by George Meredith.1911
Ancoats BrotherhoodRecreation in Ancoats. Page 16. The Old Chartist, by George Meredith.1911
Cotton Factory TimesAdvertisement for the first edition of the Cotton Factory Times, 1886. "Nobody in this industry should be without The Cotton Factory Times."1886
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unknownCommemorative poem to mark the laying of the foundation cornerstone of New Mill1925
Fitton, SamA gradely unofficial guide to Shay. Page 1. Other publications by the author.1913
Fitton, SamA gradely unofficial guide to Shay. Page 2.1913
Fitton, SamA gradely unofficial guide to Shay. Title page.1913
Fitton, SamMy owd case clockc. 1922
Edmund Potter and Co LtdDinting Vale Printworks cotton sample pattern book. Beatrix Potter used some of the samples to dress models of her animal characters. The material for a shawl worn by Mrs Tiggywinkle is based on pattern number 2227141892
Edmund Potter and Co LtdDinting Vale Printworks cotton sample pattern book. Beatrix Potter used some of the samples to dress models of her animal characters. The material for the dress worn by Duchess in The Tale of The Pie and the Patty Pan is based on pattern number 2099341892
Edmund Potter and Co LtdDinting Vale Printworks cotton sample pattern book. Beatrix Potter, used some of the samples to dress models of her animal characters.The material for the dress worn by a lady sewing mouse in The Tailor of Gloucester is based on pattern number 2086271892
Mortimer, JohnCotton spinning: the story of the spindle. Chapter 3. Sir Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton - the water frame and the hand-mule. Page 61. With quote from the Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin.1895
Laycock, SamuelSongs of Distress. Cheer Up a Bit Longer. Page 264.1867
Anon.The Factory Lad, or the Life of Simon Smike. Title page.1839
Butterworth, JamesThe Fustian Manufacturer's and Weaver's Complete Draught Book. Page 5. The Shuttle. A Didactic Poem.1797
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Image: an operative tending a beaming machine at Lily Mills, Shaw in the 1950s Image: Row of Terraced Houses in Ancoats, Manchester
Image: Manchester marchers during the General Strike,1926 Image: Lap-frame engraving by J.R. Barfoot, published 1835-40
Image: illustration of a worker at a Bleach Mill, c.1780 Image: Female Millworker, 1930s
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