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97 relations: Arts and Crafts movement, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Aspull, Astley Green Colliery, Astley, Greater Manchester, Atherton railway station, Atherton, Greater Manchester, Baluster, Barnfield Mills, Battle of Mons, Bay (architecture), Bedford, Greater Manchester, Bleach, Bolton and Leigh Railway, Bradshaw Gass & Hope, Bridgewater Canal, British Newspaper Archive, Browett, Lindley & Co, Caleb Wright, Cambric, Carels Frères, Combined Egyptian Mills, Cotton mill, Courtaulds, Dobson & Barlow, Edward Potts (architect), Empress Mill, Ince, Fine Spinners and Doublers, Finial, Fletcher, Burrows and Company, Fred Dibnah, Fustian, George Saxon & Co, Ghent, Golborne, Haigh, Greater Manchester, Hindley, Greater Manchester, Hindsford, Historic counties of England, Howe Bridge, Ince-in-Makerfield, J & E Wood, James Burton (millowner), John Musgrave & Sons, John Rylands, Joint-stock company, Lancashire Coalfield, Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Leek, ..., Leigh Spinners, Leigh, Greater Manchester, List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited, Listed building, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Local Government Act 1972, Lunette, Macclesfield, Manchester, Mather & Platt, Mather Lane Mill, May Mill, Pemberton, Mayflower, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Mosley Common, Mosley Street, Muslin, Orrell, Greater Manchester, Parapet, Pemberton, Greater Manchester, Pennington, Greater Manchester, Pier (architecture), Pilaster, Platt Brothers, Port of Liverpool, Power loom, Putting-out system, Rayon, Ring spinning, River Douglas (Lancashire), Siemens Brothers, Spinning mule, Standish, Greater Manchester, Stott and Sons, Terracotta, Trencherfield Mill, Tuscan order, Twill, Tyldesley, Velvet, Viyella, Westleigh, Greater Manchester, Wigan, Wigan (fabric), William Fairbairn, Yale University Press, Yates and Thom. Expand index (47 more) »
Arts and Crafts movement
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.
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Ashton-in-Makerfield
Ashton-in-Makerfield is a town in Greater Manchester, England.
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Aspull
Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Astley Green Colliery
Astley Green Colliery was a coal mine in Astley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
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Astley, Greater Manchester
Astley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, which is crossed by the Bridgewater Canal and the A580 East Lancashire Road.
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Atherton railway station
Atherton railway station serves the town of Atherton, Greater Manchester, England, and is the main station on the line between Wigan and Manchester on the Manchester to Southport Line, and according to Strategic Rail Authority figures is the busiest station on the line (excluding Wigan and Manchester; Salford Crescent is technically not on the line).
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Atherton, Greater Manchester
Atherton (pop. 20,300) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England and historically was a part of Lancashire.
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Baluster
A baluster—also called spindle or stair stick—is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, cut from a rectangular or square plank, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.
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Barnfield Mills
Barnfield Mills was a complex of cotton mills that operated in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England from the middle of the 19th century.
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Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.
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Bay (architecture)
In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.
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Bedford, Greater Manchester
Bedford, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington and Westleigh, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh.
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Bleach
Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product which is used industrially and domestically to whiten clothes, lighten hair color and remove stains.
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Bolton and Leigh Railway
The Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&L) was the first public railway in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
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Bradshaw Gass & Hope
Bradshaw Gass & Hope is an English firm of architects founded in 1862 by Jonas James Bradshaw (1837–1912).
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Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.
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Browett, Lindley & Co
Browett, Lindley & Co was a British engineering company established in 1886, which manufactured stationary steam engines used to power cotton mills and early power stations.
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Caleb Wright
Caleb Wright (1 August 1810 – 28 April 1898) was a mill owner and Liberal politician in Lancashire, north-west England.
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Cambric
Cambric, or batiste, one of the finest and most dense kinds of cloth, is a lightweight plain-weave cloth, originally from the French commune of Cambrai, woven in greige, then bleached, piece-dyed and often glazed or calendered.
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Carels Frères
Carels Frères, or Carels Brothers, was a manufacturer of stationary steam engines in Ghent, Belgium.
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Combined Egyptian Mills
Combined Egyptian Mills Ltd was a British textile joint-stock company established in 1929 with headquarters at Howe Bridge Mills in Atherton, then in Lancashire, to buy and return to profitability, 34 financially failing cotton mills owned by 16 companies.
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Cotton mill
A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution when the early mills were important in the development of the factory system.
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Courtaulds
Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals.
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Dobson & Barlow
Dobson and Barlow were manufacturers of textile machinery with works in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
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Edward Potts (architect)
Edward Potts (2 March, 1839 – 15 April, 1909) was an architect who practised in Oldham, Lancashire, England.
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Empress Mill, Ince
Empress Mill, Ince was a single storey shed mill alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, spinning cotton in Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Fine Spinners and Doublers
Fine Spinners and Doublers was a major cotton spinning business based in Manchester, England.
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Finial
A finial or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.
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Fletcher, Burrows and Company
Fletcher, Burrows and Company was a coal mining company that owned collieries and cotton mills in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England.
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Fred Dibnah
Frederick Dibnah, (29 April 1938 – 6 November 2004) was an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering.
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Fustian
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear.
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George Saxon & Co
George Saxon & Co was an English engineering company that manufactured stationary steam engines.
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Ghent
Ghent (Gent; Gand) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Golborne
Golborne (go:bə:n) is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Haigh, Greater Manchester
Haigh is a village and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.
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Hindley, Greater Manchester
Hindley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.
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Hindsford
Hindsford is a suburb of Atherton in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.
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Howe Bridge
Howe Bridge is a suburb of Atherton, Greater Manchester, England.
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Ince-in-Makerfield
Ince-in-Makerfield or Ince is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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J & E Wood
J & E Wood was a company that manufactured stationary steam engines.
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James Burton (millowner)
James Burton (1784 – 1868) was born in Clitheroe in 1784 and owned several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford in the middle of the 19th century.
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John Musgrave & Sons
John Musgrave & Sons was a company that manufactured stationary steam engines.
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John Rylands
John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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Joint-stock company
A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.
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Lancashire Coalfield
The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was one of the most important British coalfields.
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Lancashire Cotton Corporation
The Lancashire Cotton Corporation was a company set up by the Bank of England in 1929, to rescue the Lancashire spinning industry by means of horizontal rationalisation.
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
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Leek
The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek.
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Leigh Spinners
Leigh Spinners or Leigh Mill is a Grade II* listed double cotton spinning mill in Bedford, Leigh, England.
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Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Wigan and west of Manchester, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss.
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List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited
The Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited was incorporated 23 January 1929, and became the world's largest spinner of cotton.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.
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Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.
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Lunette
In architecture, a lunette (French lunette, "little moon") is a half-moon shaped space, either filled with recessed masonry or void.
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Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Mather & Platt
Mather & Platt is the name of several large engineering firms in Europe, South Africa and Asia that are subsidiaries of Wilo SE, Germany or were founded by former employees.
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Mather Lane Mill
Mather Lane Mills was a complex of cotton mills built by the Bridgewater Canal in Bedford, Leigh in Lancashire, England.
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May Mill, Pemberton
May Mill, Pemberton is a cotton spinning mill in Pemberton, Wigan, Greater Manchester.
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Mayflower
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620.
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Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England.
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Mosley Common
Mosley Common is a suburb of Tyldesley at the far-eastern edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Mosley Street
Mosley Street is a street in Manchester, England.
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Muslin
Muslin, also mousseline, is a cotton fabric of plain weave.
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Orrell, Greater Manchester
Orrell is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Parapet
A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.
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Pemberton, Greater Manchester
Pemberton is a mainly residential area of Wigan and an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Pennington, Greater Manchester
Pennington, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of six townships in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh, that with Westleigh and Bedford merged to form the town of Leigh in 1875.
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Pier (architecture)
A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.
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Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
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Platt Brothers
Platt Brothers, also known as Platt Bros & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Werneth in Oldham, North West England.
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Port of Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.
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Power loom
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
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Putting-out system
The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work.
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Rayon
Rayon is a manufactured fiber made from regenerated cellulose fiber.
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Ring spinning
Ring spinning is a method of spinning fibres, such as cotton, flax or wool, to make a yarn.
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River Douglas (Lancashire)
The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland or Astland, is a river that flows through Lancashire and Greater Manchester in the north-west of England.
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Siemens Brothers
Siemens Brothers and Company Limited was an electrical engineering design and manufacturing business in London, England.
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Spinning mule
The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.
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Standish, Greater Manchester
Standish is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Stott and Sons
Stott and Sons was an architectural practice in Greater Manchester between 1847 and 1931. It specialised in cotton mills, designing 191 buildings of which 130 were mills or buildings related to the cotton industry. Abraham Henthorn Stott was born on 25 April 1822 in the parish of Crompton. He served a seven-year apprenticeship with Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parliament and Manchester Art Gallery. Abraham returned to Oldham in 1847 and founded the architectural practice of A H Stott. It was known for his innovative structural engineering. His brother Joseph Stott in 1866 started his career here before leaving to start his own practice. Three of his nine children worked in the practice. Jesse Ainsworth Stott became the senior partner. Philip Sydney Stott spent three years in the practice before starting his own. After Abraham's retirement his practice was renamed Stott and Sons.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, terra cotta or terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
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Trencherfield Mill
Trencherfield Mill is a cotton spinning mill standing next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
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Tuscan order
The Tuscan order is in effect a simplified Doric order, with un-fluted columns and a simpler entablature with no triglyphs or guttae.
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Twill
Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (in contrast with a satin and plain weave).
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Tyldesley
Tyldesley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.
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Velvet
Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel.
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Viyella
Viyella is a blend of wool and cotton first woven in 1893 in England, and soon to be the "first branded fabric in the world".
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Westleigh, Greater Manchester
Westleigh, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of three ancient townships, Westleigh, Bedford and Pennington, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh.
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Wigan
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester.
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Wigan (fabric)
Wigan is a cotton material coated with latex rubber.
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William Fairbairn
Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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Yates and Thom
Yates & Thom Ltd, or Yates of Blackburn, was a British manufacturer of stationary steam engines and boilers at the Canal Ironworks, Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mills_in_Wigan
