Cotton mill

D 26003. Cotton worker Mrs Bannister carries 14 large bobbins (13 in one arm and 1 in the other hand!) from the "intermediate to the roving frames" at a cotton mill somewhere in Lancashire

In this week's The Way We Were we look at the history of the cotton industry – which helped turn Manchester into the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution.

Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley: See 224 reviews, articles, and 60 photos of Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, ranked No.1 on TripAdvisor among 29 attractions in Burnley.

Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company was the first cotton mill to be established in Bombay, India on 7 July 1854 at Tardeo by Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar (1815-73) and his associates.

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Original Caption: Boys in packing room, Brown Mfg. Co. Evansville, Ind, October 1908 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-201 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: Child Labor National Child Labor Committee Working Conditions Factory Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523097 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information…

During the 1930's, Harold Costain visited the Esmond Textile mills in Esmond, Rhode Island on assignment to photograph a purportedly thriving American textile ...

Driving through New Bedford along Route 195, it’s hard not to notice the long red brick buildings on either side of the highway. These are the old textile…

While the west was being settled, large factories sprang up back east that gave many women new opportunities. Women who worked in textile mills were called “Mill Girls.” However don’t the term fool you. The employable age was between 14 to 35 years old. And rule #1 was that they be single women. One ... Read more

The following pictures are taken from J. White, The Limits of Trade Union Militancy: The Lancashire Textile Workers, 1910-1914 (London: Greenwoodpress, 1978) and are the work of the author.