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Taunton Mass is/was an area known for the development of textile equipment. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island etc, known as New...

Doffer Doffers, for instance, were nimble-fingered young boys who worked in textile factories removing and replacing bobbins from the...

Here's another but I don't know why it keeps coming up as 'pardon our interruption'...

I do not like colourised photos, a swe cannot be sure colours are right, and the definition is usually decreased by the colourization...

There are a number of corkscrews advertised on ebay with James Heeley's name on but I haven't found any that are silver hallmarked eg...

My Grandfather was a cotton doffer in a cotton mill in Manchester 1881 aged 12.

Doffer Doffers, for instance, were nimble-fingered young boys who worked in textile factories removing and replacing bobbins from the...

There's a well-known folk song 'The Doffing Mistress' which originated in the Ulster linen mills. Anne Briggs recorded this in 1963, but...

Birmingham Weekly Post, February 1960… Needless Alley.

My Grandfather was a cotton doffer in a cotton mill in Manchester 1881 aged 12.

This 1855 map of Chattaway Street shows that it was originally called Nelson Street, Cook Street Long Acre was originally Trafalgar...

thanks john...some of these aerial views are very good lyn

i have to speak as i find and i think the rising costs reason for closure yet again is rubbish...since the 1970s the bartons has been...

Yes, I think you're probably right brummy-lad. The photo in Post #26 shows a row of 6 terraced houses with a gap at either end, and an...

Geoff that's a brilliant street map of Potter Street, I searched for ages late last night for a map like that, would you mind telling me...