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Next to the hotel (centre) were warehouses dating from 1824, where flax, cotton and guano manure were stored; but these were pulled down in 1965.

The district was entirely dependent on agriculture two hundred years ago; it slowly turned to the wool industry, then to cotton, and now it has a mixture of light and heavy industry and engineering

Before the influx of tourists, the town was a centre for mining, tanning and cotton spinning.

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

The three pointed gables to its left belong to the 1824 warehouses in which guano, flax and cotton were stored (it was pulled down in 1965).

The making of the park provided work for many of the unemployed cotton workers.

Over 60,000 people turned up to see it opened on 23 October 1857.The making of the park provided work for many of the unemployed cotton workers.

Luss, on the shores of Loch Lomond, had a thriving cotton mill and slate quarries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Some villagers from here worked in the corn mill converted to cotton spinning.

The four-storey cotton and worsted mill in the background of this photograph has long been demolished.

New sections of waterway were linked to the River Mersey to enable ocean-going vessels to reach the new inland port of Manchester and the neighbouring Lancashire cotton towns.

Like the tobacco lords and cotton kings of earlier generations, they were lavish benefactors to the city, and the incredible range of fine buildings is the legacy of their munificence.

wooded valley of the River Bollin, now welcoming hordes of visitors, especially school children, who come to experience what it was like to be a child worker and to see the mill still producing cotton

A cotton mill stood here until 1932, and a sawmill was also driven by water power.

It was once a centre for the hand spinning of cotton, but was unable to compete with the industrialized mills of New Lanark.

The bridge was eventually demolished in June 1934, and the Beck was covered over during the Westgate clearance scheme.The phenomenal growth of the cotton trade in the town led to inevitable pollution of

It was known later as the Cotton Exchange.

Many of the classes and facilities were connected to local industries, and there was a whole department for training for the cotton industry.

The large female figure in Carrara marble is seated on a bale of cotton, crowned with a laurel wreath and holding a trident in one hand, and a ship's propeller in the other.

They were agents for Jaeger's 'Gentleman's Sanitary Underwear' - nothing more intriguing than Britain's first cotton 'long johns'.

In this huge hall, cotton merchants from all over Lancashire did their bartering, and many a fortune was made or lost.

It was built soon after the American Civil War - at that time the industry prospered, since Lancashire was starved of cotton.

Close-range torpedoes could carry a warhead of about 220 lbs of gun cotton and travel at about 32 knots; long- range torpedoes carried a lighter warhead and at travelled at a slightly slower speed

Noteable people already mentioned are George Meredith and his family, the Attlee family and General Sir Arthur Cotton DMC.