Langthwaite Cotton Mill
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Description: Part of the article 'Langthwaite Cotton Mill' by D.J.W.Mawson in The Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society for 1976, presenting the history of the Langthwaite cotton mill in Carlisle, UK, from 1790 to its closure in 1888. From the Industrial History of Cumbria.
From the article 'by D.J.W.Mawson in The Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society for 1976, by kind permission of the author and the society If the emergence of Carlisle as an industrial centre is to be attributed to a specific period, this must be the decade of the 1790s, for it was during these years that the foundations of the local spinning industry were laid. Indeed, within fifty years the district had become the fourth most important cotton manufacturing area in the United Kingdom. By 1847 there were four large spinning mills in Carlisle, two more at Dalston, and one each at Warwick Bridge and Cummersdale. In the last village there was also a substantial calico-printing establishment, and in the city itself no less than eight weaving factories and several bleaching and finishing works.
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