Petrie of Rochdale information

Alexander Petrie and Co was a company that manufactured stationary steam engines. It was based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in England. The company...

Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 21) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which introduced a compulsory levy on cotton...

used first by the Rochdale Canal and then by the Manchester and Leeds Railway (which the Fieldens helped establish, John being a member of the company's provisional...

of the hand-powered branch of the industry on the one hand and of the water- or steam-powered branches on the other. It is difficult: the output of power...

education. An autodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic and technical drawing. In 1786, he moved to Manchester where he...

counts. Their competitors were Howard & Bullough of Accrington and Tweedales and Smalley of Rochdale. Platts also supplied plans for mills and the fitters...

(1756–1828) was an English cotton manufacturer. Samuel Oldknow Jnr, the eldest son of Samuel Oldknow Sr and Margery Foster, was born on 5 October 1756 in Anderton...

including the Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1936 and 1939. Implementation of the Act ran into considerable trouble as demand for cotton collapsed. Cotton...

Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 23 December 2013 Nevell, Michael (2007), "The Social Archaeology of Industrialisation:...

The Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen (YSTC) was a trade union representing workers in a variety of textile work in Yorkshire. The union was established...

(secondary coordinates) This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in Manchester, England. List of warehouses in Manchester Williams & Farnie...

mill) Empress Mill, Wigan Crest Mill, Rochdale (2-storey mill) Spur Mill, Reddish (doubling mill) Harp Mill, Rochdale (doubling mill) Ray Mill, Stalybridge...

Houldsworth, of Reddish, in the Parish of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and of Coodham in the Parish of Symington in the County of Ayr. The...

Betsy died after the birth of Sydney and Mason then married for a third time Annie, daughter of George Ashworth, Esq, of Rochdale in 1864. Bertha became known...

politician from Standish Hall, near Wigan in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons for three years in the 1860s, and two years in the 1880s. His uncle...