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Those Were The Days.
i am the Tony Williams that used to live in Hatherop road, Infant, Junior, Senior Schools Hampton. i moved to Bristol in 1953, i now live in Frome Somerset. I had lots of good happy memories of Hampton especially going fishing ...Read more
A memory of Hampton by
Robert William Shaw Family My Greatgrandfather
My GreatGrandParents Were Robert William Shaw and Eleanor (Wilkinson) Shaw. He worked as a Roller Coverer at a Cotton Factory, I do not know what the name of the factory was. I know my Grandmothers name ...Read more
A memory of Sabden in 1880 by
From The Beginning!
I was born in 1938 in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. My Mam and Dad were allocated a new flat in Kingsley Crescent when I was a year old so all my memories are of the 'flats'. I, along with my two sisters and one ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1940 by
Thomas Binns 1845 1921 No 1 The Green Later No 3 Grange Cottages
Hello - I would be very grateful for any information - especially photos - of my ancestor Thomas Binns who moved from Cowling to Micklethwaite c. 1898. He had built ...Read more
A memory of Micklethwaite in 1900 by
My Oldham
I was born in Oldham in 1946. Lived in Norfolk Street, Chadderton until 1953 then moved to the Isle of Wight. My mother, Marjorie Bolton, lived in Hollinwood and represented Oldham as Cotton Queen in the 1930's. Have always loved the ...Read more
A memory of Oldham in 1946 by
Emigration From Tyldesley
Hi I live in Auckland New Zealand, but my grandparents came here from Tyldesley in 1922 with their three young children. Both my grandfather Fred Needham, born in 1889, and my grandmother Charlotte Dutton, born in ...Read more
A memory of Tyldesley in 1920 by
Bernard Cummins Salford Evacuee
Hello, my grandad and his sister Kathleen were both evacuees from Salford during the war and I am trying to gather information on him and his sister - also the people that he stayed with and where he stayed during ...Read more
A memory of Scorton in 1940
Father & Grandparents Crane.
My grandfather, John Crane, lived in Scorton & worked at Wyresdale Park for approximately 10 years from 1900. My father Christopher A. & his 2 sisters, Mary Ann & Ellen, went to Scorton school. My question is ...Read more
A memory of Scorton in 1900 by
The Lodge Falinge 1901
My husband Brian Biggins' maternal grandfather Thomas Wolfenden was 42 and lived in the Lodge Falinge Park. He was a dyer in a cotton mill and had formerly been a farmer's helper. Has anyone got any ideas about how we can find information about why he would be living there?
A memory of Rochdale in 1900 by
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When the camp was built, it took in Scotton Hall, the Hipswell estate and the Brough estate.
Facit New Mill was a cotton mill employing 700 people in its heyday – it closed in the mid 1960s.
When the camp was built, it took in Scotton Hall, the Hipswell estate and the Brough estate.
The village was the home of the Cherry-Garrard family, one of whom was with Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.
St Michael's, built in the 1860s by George Gilbert Scott on Park Road, presumably provoked the Methodists into a grand Gothic church, rather than a modest chapel.
It was replaced in 1942 by the present crossiing designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. On
Atherton was a cotton-spinning town, and for 200 years a mining community. Local collieries included Howe Bridge, Gibfield, and Chanter.
He had previously made his fortune as a cotton mill owner and by investing in the railways.
Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its cruel treatment of the children who worked there. Originally it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.
The land was donated by John Ferney, a retired cotton spinner, and much of the funding was provided by William Atkinson, a cotton manufacturer.
The land was donated by John Ferney, a retired cotton spinner, and much of the funding was provided by William Atkinson, a cotton manufacturer.
John Bright`s father Jacob built a cotton mill at Greenbank in 1809 and John became a partner when he was aged 16. John built his home, One Ash, opposite the mill in 1839.
Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.
Those who did their business here would know where to find the Blackburn cotton manufacturers, or the Oldham cotton spinners, as well as cotton brokers, agents for the Indian and Chinese markets, and machinery
Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its bad treatment of the children who worked there. Originally, it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.
Since 1977 the Afan Burrough has undertaken reclamation works at the sites of the Avon and Scatton colliery and of the disused railway.
Harden Beck, which used to power a cotton-spinning mill up to 1802, is pictured here just below Hallas Bridge. The local poet John Nicholson wrote much of his pastoral work near the 20ft waterfall.
A cotton mill stood here until 1932, and a sawmill was also driven by water power.
There was even a cotton mill in the middle of the town in the late 18th century, owned by the Bowen family.
