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  2. Lace Market - Wikipedia

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    Broadway in the Lace Market. The Lace Market is a historic quarter-mile square area in the centre of Nottingham, England. It was the centre of the world's lace industry during the British Empire and is now a protected heritage area. It was an area of salesrooms and warehouses for storing, displaying and selling

  3. Boulevard Works - Wikipedia

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    Boulevard Works is the largest surviving tenement lace factory in Nottingham, dating from 1883. [2] It was built for George Henry Perry and Sons and comprises a 5 storey building, plus basement and attic. It had capacity for 234 standings of Levers lace making machines.

  4. Oldknows Factory, Nottingham - Wikipedia

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    The Oldknows Factory is a former lace factory alongside St Ann's Hill Road and Egerton Street, in the city of Nottingham in England. The works are formed from two 18th century factories, which have since been joined. [1] The original purpose of both factories was the manufacture of lace.

  5. Thomas Adams (manufacturer and philanthropist) - Wikipedia

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    On 2 September 1830, he married Lucy Cullen, daughter of a Nottingham businessman, in St Mary's Church, just a stone's throw away. He seems to have formed business partnerships, buying made lace goods and selling them on to wholesale and retail customers. In the mid-1830s, he was shown in local business directories as a lace manufacturer.

  6. Leavers machine - Wikipedia

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    Leavers lace machines Border (ST293) - Lace-Machine Lace - MoMu Antwerp. The Leavers machine is a lacemaking machine that John Levers adapted from Heathcoat's Old Loughborough machine. It was made in Nottingham in 1813. The name of the machine was the Leavers machine (the 'a' was added to aid pronunciation in France).

  7. Nottingham lace curtain machine - Wikipedia

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    The Nottingham lace curtain machine only has one warp, and the patterning threads are carried on a spool, not on a beam. The terms to describe the actions are the same as those used for a Leavers machine: rise, fall, right, left, sley, carriage, comb etc. [ 6 ] The lace is collected at the top, unlike the Pusher machine , where it is collected ...

  8. Richard Birkin - Wikipedia

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    Birkin was married and had two sons, Richard and Thomas. [3]He was a magistrate, and a director of the Midland Railway Company. [3] He was Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1849/50, 1855/56, and 1861/63.

  9. Nottingham Industrial Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Nottingham Industrial Museum is a volunteer-run museum situated in part of the 17th-century stables block of Wollaton Hall, located in a suburb of the city of Nottingham. [1] The museum won the Nottinghamshire Heritage Site of the Year Award 2012 , a local accolade issued by Experience Nottinghamshire. [ 2 ]