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Cottage interior reconstruction

showing spinning wheel and hand loom, cottage industry pre 1780, the whole family would be involved in all processes from preparation to woven cloth
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CreatorQuarry Bank Mill
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Date createdc.1740
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Manufacturer/Publisher
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Holding organisationQuarry Bank Mill
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Associated Objects
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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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