The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution
Author:   Geoffrey Timmins
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781800856530


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Format:   Hardback
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The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution


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Author:   Geoffrey Timmins
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Historic England
ISBN:  

9781800856530


ISBN 10:   1800856539
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Introduction: scope and methods Chapter 1: Harnessing water power: Cheesden valley textile mills Chapter 2: Housing the workforce: Barrow Bridge ‘model’ factory village Chapter 3: Working at home: the handloom weavers’ colony at Club Houses, Horwich Chapter 4: Housing the better-off: Winkley Square, Preston Chapter 5: Canal-side development: Eanam wharf at Blackburn Chapter 6: Route realigning: the Bromley Cross and Edgworth road Conclusion: Reviewing the transformation

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'Winner of the Association for Industrial Archaeology's Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship'


'Winner of the Association for Industrial Archaeology's Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship' 'The book is very readable, highly informative, and clearly demonstrates the author's outstanding breadth and depth of understanding [...] many copies of this valuable book are likely to become very well thumbed.' Niall Logan, Family & Community History


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Geoffrey Timmins is Emeritus Professor in the School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies at the University of Central Lancashire.

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