John Pilling and Sons information

The family firm John Pilling and Sons Ltd, made hand, dandy and power looms from 1819. It started in Trawden making hand, dandy and then wooden framed...

surplus spindles. Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 Cotton Industry Act 1959 Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History by John Irwin, p61...

other attempts to help rationalise and modernise the industry including the Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1936 and 1939. Implementation of the Act...

beam. Each time the weaver moved the sley to beat-up the weft, a rachet and pawl mechanism advanced the cloth roller. In 1802 William Ratcliffe of Stockport...

his building enterprise. He held the post until 1832. Bellhouse and his wife had five sons who continued the family building trade. Edward Taylor Bellhouse...

Oldham and re-established his business there. He and Elijah Hibbert formed a partnership Hibbert and Platt. When his sons, Joseph and John joined the...

fourth season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 6, 2011, and concluded on December 6, 2011, after 14 episodes...

Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.4, pp.219-220 Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical...

John Fielden (17 January 1784 – 29 May 1849) was a British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham (1832–1847). He entered Parliament...

yeoman. In 1770, Margery married John Clayton, a farmer, with whom she had three children: Margery, Samuel and John. Oldknow continued to have close connections...

Woodock's, Sons and Eckersley, which amalgamated in 1874 with Parr's Banking Company in Warrington. He was Mayor of Wigan in 1853 and in 1873, and was appointed...

Publishing. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-7524-1878-5. Holden, Roger N (1977). Stott and Sons: Architects of the Lancashire Cotton Mills. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing...

manufacturer and merchant. Born in Whalley, Lancashire, he had a successful career as a fustian manufacturer using the domestic putting-out system, and as a merchant...

Robinson and Sons Ltd was founded in 1839 by John Bradbury Robinson in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The company started making pill boxes and grew to become...

Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette, released on June 13, 1995, through Maverick and her first album...

engineer and surveyor. Stott was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, at Wykeham Place (now the site of the former Chadderton Central Library), the third son of...

former banjoist and lead guitarist of the folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy...

May 1817 and christened there. He was the youngest of four children of Thomas Mason, a former textile manager, and Mary, the daughter of John Holden, Esq...