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1891 Cotton Mills in Ramsbottom

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Ramsbottom (p173)

BLEACHERS AND CALICO PRINTERS

  • Hepburn and Co, Limited, (bleachers and finishers), The Square Works; Manchester office- Bridgewater Buildings, Albert square. Accounts paid last day of each month, from the works, by cheque.


COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS

  • Richard Barnes, Crow Works; 3,000 spindles; 130 looms, honeycomb towels, twills and plain cloths.
  • John and Edmund Rothwell, Meadow Mill; 5,300 spindles, 18/68 rove or condensed yarn in cop or bundle; 125 looms, waste twills and plains; Manchester warehouse-8, Marble street.
  • Lawrence Stead and Brother, Hope Mills, Nuttall lane; Irwell Bridge, Garden and Railway Mills; 2,000 looms. Pay day second Tuesday, at Manchester warehouses-34, Charlotte st., and 39, Faulkner street. Telegrams, " Dates, Manchester " ; " Steads, Ramsbottom." Telephone Nos.-Manchester, 588; Ramsbottom, Garden Mill, 6.

Edenfield. 2 miles N.E. from Ramsbottom (p175)

COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS


DYERS


WOOLLEN MANUFACTURER


Shuttleworth. 1 mile E. from Ramsbottom (p175)

BLEACHERS

  • William Rumney and Co, Cross Bank Bleach Works, Shuttleworth; Stubbins Print Works, nr. Ramsbottom; and Blackford Bridge, near Bury.


COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS

  • H. Hitchon, Lower Mill; 2,000 spindles, 11/6' twist and weft. Telegrams, "Hitchon, Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom."


Stubbins. 1 mile N. from Ramsbottom (p175)

BLEACHERS AND CALICO PRINTERS


COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS

See Also

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Sources of Information

1891 Worrall's Cotton Spinners Directory