| 11. | It was partly occupied by the first calico printing business in Fall River, set up by Andrew Robeson.
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| 12. | In 1804, the Andrew family established a water-driven calico printing business downstream from the present mill site.
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| 13. | John Brooks was a partner in the calico printing firm of Cunliffe & Brooks who had a mill near Blackburn.
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| 14. | Broad Mills was a collection of mills ( factories ), including a calico printing mill, run by the Sidebottom family.
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| 15. | By the 19th century it had become a centre of cotton and calico printing, but that industry declined during the 20th century.
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| 16. | Following this, railways opened, linking the town from Bury Bolton Street railway station to Manchester, calico printing and some light engineering.
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| 17. | In 1810, Thomson set up a successful calico printing business in Clitheroe, in partnership with a Blackburn cotton merchant, John Chippendale.
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| 18. | The new business depended on Patent No . 8302 of 1839, obtained by Harold Potter, adapting a calico printing technique to wallpaper.
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| 19. | His calico printing and warehousing partnership with a certain William Gregory Langdon in London, Cheapside, is known to have ended in February 1848.
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| 20. | His great grandfather, William Hait? and his grandfather, Henry Hait? worked in the calico printing industry centred on the River Cray in Kent.
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