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The advertisements are from the Cotton Spinners & Manufacturers’ Directory, 1891. [Lancashire]. The publication’s full title is, “The Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers’ Directory, and Engineers and Machine Makers’ Advertiser; with the approximate number of spindles and looms, and the telegraphic addresses, telephone nos., and pay days of the principal firms … [1891]”
This was the 8th edition of the directory, and it lists the trades in numerous Lancashire towns associated with cotton spinning and manufacturing. Example entries include: Bleachers, Calico Printers and Cotton Spinners. The publisher was John Worrall of Marlborough Street in Okdham.
From Archives and Special Collections of The University of Leicester:
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/150873
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Text from the listings:
BAMBER BRIDGE.
3 miles S.S.E. from PRESTON. Letters should be addressed “near PRESTON.”
COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS.
Aspden Richard & Co., Mexican Mill; 240 looms, mexicans. Pay days Tuesday and Friday
Dewhurst George & R., Cuerden Mill; 67,432 spindles, 30 ^ s twist and weft; 1,032 looms, Indian shirtings; and at Higher Walton Mill, Walton-le-Dale.
Pay day last Saturday
Eccles Thomas, Sons & Co., Stone Mill, School lane; 50,342 spindles, 30 ^ s twist and weft; 824 looms, shirtings. Pay day last Thursday
Eccles William & Sons, Withy Trees Mill; 29,650 spindles, 30 ^ s twist, (30 ^ s) / (36 ^ s) weft; 476 looms, shirtings. Telephone No., 233
Orr J. & A. S., School Lane Mill; 37,940 spindles, 30 ^ s twist, 40 ^ s weft; 560 looms, shirtings
PENWORTHAM.
2 miles S.W. from PRESTON.
Letters should be addressed “near PRESTON,”
COTTON SPINNER.
Cockshutt Joshua, Penwortham Mill; 25,000 spindles, 40°/60° twist and weft. Telephone No., 180
WALTON-LE-DALE AND LOSTOCK HALL.
1½ miles S.E. from PRESTON.
Letters should be addressed “near PRESTON.”
COTTON SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS.
Calvert William & Sons, Flats Mills, Walton-le-Dale; and Aqueduct and India Mills, Preston; 150,566 spindles, 30°/40s twist and weft; 2,546 looms, shirtings and sheetings. Pay days last Saturday and the previous Friday afternoon, at Flats Mills Dewhurst George & R., Higher Walton Mill; 77,288 spindles, 30s twist and weft; 1,168 looms, India shirtings; and at Cuerden Mill, Bamber Bridge. Pay day last Saturday
Lostock Hall Spinning Co., Limited; 55,176 spindles, 60°/100 weft and twist. Telephone No., 133. George Firth, manager; John Henry Almond, secretary
Simpson & Russell, Gregson Lane Mill, Walton-le-Dale; 31,000 spindles, 26°/34″ twist, 36°/60° weft; 216 looms, shirtings and jacconettes. Pay day last Thursday. Railway address-Hoghton Sta-tion, East Lanc. Ry.
Walker, Moss & Co., Cuerden Green Mills, Lostock Hall; 506 looms; and Phoenix Mills, Kirkham.
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