Textile

Richard Arkwrights first water powered cotton spinning mill and the breakthrough work of the Industrial Revolution. Built in a Der...

Samuel Gregs water powered cotton mill on the River Bollin at Styal, one of the best preserved Georgian mills anywhere. Its 1830s ...

Cotton mills powered by the Falls of Clyde where Robert Owen ran one of historys great social experiments from 1800: shorter hours...

Samuel Slater, an emigrant from Derbyshire, built the first successful water powered cotton spinning mill in America at Pawtucket,...

Francis Cabot Lowells mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, first to combine carding, spinning, and weaving under one roof, all powered ...

Brick mill courtyard at Lowell, Massachusetts, heart of the Lowell system that employed thousands of young women, the mill girls, ...

Titus Salt built Salts Mill, a vast Italianate worsted mill, together with a complete stone village of terraces, church, school, a...

Adam and George Murrays steam powered cotton mills in Ancoats, Manchester, the worlds first industrial suburb. Tall brick ranges a...

The first iron framed building in the world, built in Shrewsbury for flax spinning to a design by Charles Bage. Its cast iron colu...