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Christy (also known as Christy UK and Christy Towels) is a manufacturer of household linens and is known as the inventor of the first industrially produced looped cotton towel. It was founded in 1850 in the English mill town of Droylsden, Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester).
Richard Haworth and Co. was established by Richard Haworth in 1854 as a cotton spinning and manufacturing firm in Cannon Street, Manchester, and Tatton Mill in Salford.. Today the company is part of the Ruia Group which comprises a number of companies that import, supply and distribute textiles and hosiery to retailers and hospitality organisa
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in Manchester, England. Mills Name Owners Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Albany Works SD 882 007 53°30′11″N 2°10′44″W / 53.503°N 2.179°W / 53.503; -2.179 ...
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Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, 4.1 miles (6.6 km) east of Manchester city centre and 2.2 miles (3.5 km) west of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689. [1] Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, in the mid-19th century Droylsden grew as a mill town on the Ashton canal.
The number of cotton mills in Manchester peaked at 108 in 1853. [5] As the numbers declined, cotton mills opened in the surrounding towns, Bury, Oldham (at its zenith the most productive cotton spinning town in the world [6] [7]), Rochdale, Bolton (known as "Spindleton" in 1892) [8] and in Blackburn, Darwen, Rawtenstall, Todmorden and Burnley.