'Textile mills' in M Winstanley (ed), Rural Industries of the Lune Valley
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- Author(s) Price, James W A
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2000
- Pages pp124-47
- Publisher Lancaster University
- Place Published Lancaster
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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In effect the study extends well beyond the Lune Valley to neighbouring areas. Covers 18th and 19th centuries. First part describes and analyses the industry in this rural area. Second part deals with some of the sites associated with the industry - cotton, silk, flax and some woollen mills. Has sections: 'Technology and power'; 'Materials and markets'; 'Labour and housing'; 'Capital investment' [short]; major sites at Dolphinholme; Calder Vale; Caton; Halton