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Water power played an important role in the development of the factory system, for it was harnessed to drive machinery in cotton and woollen mills alike.

This early cotton mill in the valley of the River Wye was the scene, if the propaganda is to be believed, of some of the worst horrors of the exploitation of child labour in the 19th century.

Later the race served a bone mill and a small woollen and cotton mill nearby.

Nearby Hampton Court became the home of the Arkwright family, the well-known cotton spinning industrialists.

By the 1870s, many Lancashire cotton workers received three day's unpaid holiday a year, which was tacked onto a weekend to give a five-day break.

Alkali was needed not only for the production of soap but also to finish textiles in the nearby Lancashire cotton mills.

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

The cotton mill and the later factories were in full production from the 18th century, but now they form part of a heritage park for tourists.

Once famous for the manufacture of ribbons, Nuneaton's industrial base diversified to include ironworks, worsted factories, cotton and silk goods.

The most famous person resting here must be John Horrocks, who founded his great cotton empire at Preston.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

Most of the mills built here were for cotton spinning and weaving; so many were established in the locality that just across the border in Derbyshire there is even a town called New Mills.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

In 1862 George Charnley Dewhurst, a wealthy Manchester cotton magnate, bought the Oughtrington estates and became a benefactor to the village.

The lake, originally the reservoir for the cotton mill at the far end, was used for boating and swimming, whilst sunbathers and picnickers enjoyed its wooded banks.

Inside there are monuments to the Hynde-Cotton family.

A visitor from 1955 would be rather confused by this view (taken from the gateway of Cotton End House), as the war memorial was moved in 2001 from the centre to the right-hand side of the road and

Ramsbottom is a small cotton town on the Irwell less than four miles north of Bury, and just over eleven miles from Manchester.

It was famous for the production of button moulding, although, as in so many towns in the area, cotton was also produced here.

The 19th-century cotton industry brought great wealth to Clayton, some of which went to build the church.

As well as timber, Sharpness handled all manner of grains, linseed, palm kernels, cotton seed, offal grains and ground nuts.

on a magnificent site overlooking the entire town of Shrewsbury; the school building was originally built in the 18th century to house orphans, who were then trained to work in the cotton

With the mills of Oldham and Bolton preferring to use Egyptian rather than American cotton, the MSC saw its share of total UK imports for Egyptian cotton rise from 21.4 per cent to 33.6 per cent