Birley family

Sectors:

  • Textile production Cotton textiles production inc spinning & weaving
  • Rubber & plastic products manufacture Rubber products inc tyre manufacture

Notes:

Principal developers of very large cotton mills at Chorlton and elsewhere. From 1820s connected with Charles Macintosh and important in the early development of Charles Macintosh & Co as a manufacturer of rubberized waterproof cloth at Chorlton

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