Following this, railways were opened, linking the town from Bury Bolton Street railway station to Manchester ( via Prestwich and calico printing and some light engineering.
22.
He was educated at Glasgow University and became the head of the family calico printing firm of Dalglish, Falconer & Son founded in Lennoxtown by his father.
23.
An industrial chemist, he worked at Joseph Peel and Co ., a London Calico printing firm, then managed their branch at Church, near Accrington.
24.
The second incorporation of the A . & W . Sprague Company occurred on June 2, 1859 . It soon was the largest calico printing textile mill in the world.
25.
Bromley Hall had many subsequent uses, serving as a gunpowder factory during the English Civil War and later as a calico printing works and a residence for wealthy City merchants.
26.
Born in Reddish, Lancashire, Nuttall was the maternal grandson of mill-owner Issachar Thorp, who was heir to the Thorp dynasty of calico printing factories in Manchester.
27.
A significant event in the history of the locality was the establishment of the calico printing works at Lennoxmill during the late 1780s, on a site adjacent to the old corn mill.
28.
Potter's paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned what was then the largest calico printing works in England, and later served as a member of parliament.
29.
As a young man, Cobden was a successful commercial traveller who became co-owner of a highly profitable calico printing factory in Manchester, a city with which he would become strongly identified.
30.
In 1792, frustrated in administering the immature and, as yet, unreliable machinery, he left Boulton and Watt to work in partnership with Samuel Oldknow in a cotton bleaching and calico printing venture.
