Sentences with phrase «cotton mills»

It's an examination of what happened to wages and productivity over the course of the industrial revolution, particularly in the crucial cotton mill industry.
At an old - fashioned cotton mill, an employee is found dead in what looks like a particularly gruesome accident.
From a «five star gas station» to a leading music venue, some old cotton mills in rural North Carolina are becoming a hub of a new economy.
In Lanarkshire, home to two World Heritage Sites — the Antonine Wall and New Lanark, a beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village close to the dramatic Falls of Clyde — investment is ongoing in conference facilities.
When they created their own cotton mill, they relied on Joseph Benjamin Cornelius to provide the money needed, and Cornelius the town was born.
It wasn't an easy decision for Pan's family to sell the 32 - year - old cotton mill started by her father in 1986, a time when China was emerging as the global centre for textile and clothing production.
Often joked as a place where it never stops raining (it does, we have sunny days too), Manchester is all beautiful red brick buildings, former cotton mills and canals.
The heart of English football is still in that belt of industry and coal, in places like the Yorkshire woolen mills and the Lancashire cotton mills, in gray - black cities like Leeds, Preston, Blackburn, Halifax, Sheffield, Burnley, Manchester, Blackpool, Huddersfield — dark cities with sodium lights cutting through the fog and smoke, cities where one is never much farther than a corner kick from a soccer pitch.
Organic Cotton: Made in the USA at a certified organic cotton mill.
From 1800 to 1829, [Robert Owen] directed the great cotton mill at New Lanark, in Scotland, as managing partner, along the same lines, but with greater freedom of action and with a success that made him a European reputation.
The towns of Swinton and Pendlebury in the North were once thriving cotton mill and coal mining towns, the factories that LS Lowry (who lived and worked here, and is now remembered by the huge new Lowry arts complex in the redeveloped docks) were there, but had closed by the 1990s.
This barrel was one of thousands sent in 1863 as a gift from northerners in the United States to feed starving, unemployed cotton mill workers in Lancashire.
The story is anchored in the eight years Lizzie and Frederick lived together in London — between 1870 and 1878 — but also delves into the past when Frederick was the owner of the Manchester cotton mill that employed Lizzie and her older sister Mary.
The German state of Saxony has everything travellers can hope for in holiday: old masters in Dresden's museums, young artists in Leipzig's converted cotton mill, and traditional crafts in the woodcarving workshops of the Erzgebirge Mountains.
The Mackintosh Building project at The Glasgow School of Art has been given a boost due to the discovery of identical pine wood sourced as salvage from a Massachusetts cotton mill.
This historic Massachusetts city was once home to many of New England's most important cotton mills.
Originating in Yorkshire, a region in Northern England, the Yorkie was employed for killing the many rats populating the mines and cotton mills in the mid 1800's when England was at it's peak production during the Industrial Revolution.
Three mathematicians discuss such topics as the moon landing, early 20th century cotton mills, and motor racing to help illuminate the methods used in climate change analysis.
Dominique's apartment conversion is in a former cotton mill; it has lovely high ceilings and tall windows which help to make the space light and airy.
When she was just 12 years old, she invented a safety device for cotton mills.
Carnegie got his first job at age 13 as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill for $ 1.20 a week after his family moved to the US.
«We're able to study the market and work with the cotton mills.
So is the machinery in the factories and cotton mills that produce the cheap goods which are the source of Britain's growing wealth.
In 1907 candle - maker William Procter and soap - maker James Gamble needed a use for cheap cottonseed oil, a waste product of the cotton mills they owned, and developed the process of hydrogenation, which turned the liquid oil into a solid resembling lard.
His Uncle Wes (Ray McKinnon) sets him up at «the cotton mill up on Chuloma.»
Still, the fact that Andy owns the cotton mill gives pause.
And it's hard not to notice that Wes» friend Andy Beamis (L. Warren Young), the one who owns the cotton mill, is now black.
We met at Lowell National Historical Park outside of Boston, created through a partnership with the University of Massachusetts - Lowell (UML) and community groups, to reinvigorate a city that was a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, where the Concord and Merrimack Rivers transported raw materials and powered the cotton mills where «mill girls» left their farm communities to come for a better life.
The next most important employers of Massachusetts women in the 1830s were the cotton mills.
Whistle As You Walk way is a one - act play for KS2 that dramatises the lives and times of Victorian children working in the cotton mills.
While this system may have been functional in preparing students to work in steel factories or cotton mills, ensuring that each graduate of the system had similar skills / knowledge and were used to working according to a standardized, regimented schedule, it's not holding up to the demands of today.
The Peugeot family began manufacturing with a cotton mill in the 18th Century, says «The Standard Catalog of Imported Cars, 1946 - 2002,» citing another book, «World Guide to Automobile Manufacturers.»
Annie Tompkins knew she couldn't go on working in Lazenby's cotton mill.
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The Yorkshire Terrier was developed in the north of England about the mid-19th century, chiefly for the job of controlling the rat population in the coal pits and cotton mills.
It was developed for the job controlling of the rat population in coal pits and cotton mills.
Originally bred for hunting vermin, they were used to control rats in coal mines and cotton mills of Yorkshire, England.
These falls are not only an amazing sight, but once entirely powered the cotton mills next to the raging giant.
The entire village is built around a cotton mill (the factory stopped working in 2004).
Housed in a converted 19th - century cotton mill, Britannia Hotel - Manchester City Centre opened in 1982.
His painting Lower Parel (2001) shows «Girangaon» (mill village) the place where the cotton mills that transformed the city's economy and led to the Indian industrial revolution were located.
In 1830 Georgia businessman Roswell King passed by the land that is now Roswell, Georgia, and saw the potential for building a cotton mill close to the nearby cotton fields.
Some people said the lightning strike was payback for the poor working conditions in his cotton mill.
He had no idea he was beginning a 40 - year process of transforming an entire neighborhood that once housed a cotton mill and housing for the mill's workers.
I didn't chop wood, but as a child growing up on a cotton mill village in Ga., I did haul in many buckets of coal.
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