Home Overview People Places Industry Clothing & Products Interactives * Contact Us Help
You are in: Overview > Boom Print Page     Email Page  
* * *
pre 1760 - Before the factory
1760-1820 - The Rise of the factory
1820-1860 - The Age of the Factory
1861-1865 - Lancashire Cotton Famine
1866-1896 - Victorian Golden Age
1897-1914 - Indian Summer
1914-1939 - Boom & bust
1940 The Long Decline
Textiles today
*
*

Mill sales catalogue

Catalogue of the sale by auction of Bluepits Mills, Castleton, near Rochdale.
Cotton ring spinning mills and manufacturing premises.
Ring spinning, weaving and preparation machinery, steam and electric power plants, mechanics tools, office furniture, fittings and utensils.
Full catalogue can be viewed at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
*
CreatorF. S. Airey, Entwistle and Co.
*
Date created1933
*
Manufacturer/Publisher
*
Holding organisationJohn Rylands University Library of Manchester
*
Accession numberOLD/2/2/1-32
*
Associated Objects
*
*
*
Image: Cottage Industry; a man using a weaving loom, pre 1800 Image: Spinning engraving by J.R. Barfoot, published 1835-40
Image: child working inside a weaving shed, c1910 Image: a drawing of Watts Warehouse in Manchester, built 1858
* *
New Opportunities Fund - Lottery Funded - logo
*
© Manchester City Council | Terms & conditions