Manchester Cotton Districts Learning Journey
Come with Victorian visitors and follow the Learning Journey steps into Manchester's busy cotton districts.
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Manchester Cotton Districts Learning Journey Step 2: New Money - New Manchester
"Manchester may be roughly divided into three great regions. The central of these - laying around the heart of the Exchange - is the grand district of warehouses and counting rooms. There the fabrics spun, wove, printed and dyed at the mills are stored for inspection and purchase. There the actual business of buying and selling is carried on. There are banks, offices agencies innumerable. The far outskirts of the city, again, form a sort of universally-stretching west-end. Thither fly all who can afford to live out of the smoke. There are open handsome squares, and showy ranges of crescents and rows, and miles of pleasant villas peeping from their shrubberied grounds. Between these two regions - between the dull stacks of warehouses and the snug and airy dwellings of the suburbs - lies the great mass of smoky, dingy, sweltering and toiling Manchester. It is from that mid region that the tall chimneys chiefly spring; and it is beneath these - stretching in a network - from mill to mill , and from factory to factory - that we find the homes of the spinners and weavers, whose calicoes are spread abroad over three parts of the garment wearing globe" Source: C.Aspin (1972) Angus Bethune Reach Manchester and The Textile Districts in 1849. Helmshore Local History Society |
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