A mob of Lancashire weavers rioted in 1791 and burned to the ground a cotton mill newly set up by Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. Time and again as the Industrial Revolution spread, ...
The historic Salterhebble Lock Keeper’s Cottage in Halifax is being transformed into an Airbnb retreat through a design project by Loom Loft ...
When Manchester's famous cotton mills were built, the Lancashire families who made a living with handlooms were made destitute. Skilled craftspeople were made redundant while Manchester factory ...