Cluny Lacemakers, which made the delicate trimming for the Princess of Wales' famous wedding dress, is celebrating its 180th ...
documents and working machinery illustrating milling & the Victorian way of life. The cloth produced at the Arlington Row of weavers’ cottages was sent to Arlington Mill for fulling to make sturdy ...
The artist William Morris called Bibury, which is about an hour’s drive from Bristol and just the other side of Cirencester, the ‘most beautiful village in England’. While there are plenty of other ...
Welcome to Cabot Mill Antiques in Brunswick, Maine – a treasure trove that’ll make your inner history buff do cartwheels.
Victorian cotton mill buildings close to Bury town centre are set to be converted into flats. Albion Mill and Albion House are currently vacant but have most recently been occupied by Pur-o-Lux ...
Valentine’s Day cards are known to be sweet, but in Victorian England, cheaply made ‘mock valentines’ with sour sentiments became all the rage. We asked an expert to speak about their impact ...
A historic Victorian mill in Stalybridge blighted by vandals will soon be secured by fences and CCTV cameras. The Grade II-listed Oakwood Mill has stood in Stalybridge since the 1850s. Left empty ...
A statue paying tribute to the women who harvested and worked the cloth for Victorian mills has been installed ... behind the East Midlands cotton and textile industry," she said.
Born into slavery in 1849, Warren Clay Coleman had an entrepreneurial spirit that led him to found the nation’s first Black-owned and -operated textile factory. The former mill is at Main Street ...