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10-11-2010, 04:17
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Cottonopolis.
Not sure if this list has ever been put on Accy Web, but just came across it, and it makes interesting reading.
Cotton Mills in Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle 1891 Cotton Mills in Accrington, Church and Oswaldtwistle 1891
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10-11-2010, 09:28
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Re: Cottonopolis.
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10-11-2010, 09:31
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I only found it because there was Entwistle's up Cocker Lumb. They carried on as mill owners, right into the twentieth century. My parents bought their house off them.
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10-11-2010, 10:02
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23-11-2010, 18:40
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Re: Cottonopolis.
Every so often I pop on to ebay to see if there is 'owt with an Accy connection worth buying. There are a couple of piccy's which have recently been placed on there, both of which I am slightly puzzled about.
The first one is this: Real Photo CDV Topo Works Group Church Accrington c1890 on eBay (end time 27-Nov-10 19:03:21 GMT) I'm puzzled because the caption is referring to a picture of the 1890's; but my observation is that the clothes worn by the people in the picture are far earlier - circa 1860's. Reference is made to Bury, Church. Now I know that Union Mill on Pickup Street was owned by the Bury family, but that was just over the border in Accy. I also know there was a photographer in Church by the name of Bury- on Henry St - working in the latter part of the 19C. So there lies the conindrum. are we looking at a piccy taken in the 1860's by Bury, or are we looking at a picture taken at Bury's mill. And why the women's white dresses? The second picture is this one: Accrington. Bonfire, Moleside. on eBay (end time 10-Dec-10 16:46:33 GMT) Why are people building an organised bonfire of this size on Moleside in 1905? What is the occaision? Surely not the usual Guy Fawkes night? Retlaw - any ideas? |
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23-11-2010, 19:41
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Ooops..just realised 1905 would have been the 300th anniversery of the Gunpowder Plot.
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