Monthly Archives: August 2013

Robert and Nathan Hyde pattern book, 1771.

Posted on 22 August, 2013 by John Styles

I recently visited Quarry Bank Mill near Wilmslow, Cheshire, one of the early water-powered cotton spinning mills, built on the River Bollin in 1784 to house the mechanical spinning frames invented by Richard Arkwright a decade and a half earlier. … Continue reading →

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