Bolton has a proud and distinctive identity. Flemish weavers settled in the area in the fourteenth century, introducing a wool- and cotton-weaving tradition, but it was the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution that prompted the town's rapid urbanisation and development. Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bolton was a boomtown and one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:144567873X
ISBN13:9781445678733
Release Date:July 2019
Publisher:Amberley Publishing
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"
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