The Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association was a trade union representing workers in the textile industry in the United Kingdom, principally in...
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Amalgamated Weavers' Association merged with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers. The Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association developed close...
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John Kay (flying shuttle) (category Textile engineering)
his son Robert in 1728. In Bury he continued to design improvements to textile machinery; in 1730 he patented a cording and twisting machine for worsted...
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (category British textile industry businesspeople)
1830), was a British politician and industrialist and one of the early textile manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. He was one of the ten known...
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Platt Brothers (category Textile machinery manufacturers)
manufactured textile machinery and were iron founders and colliery proprietors. By the end of the 19th century, the company had become the largest textile machinery...
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Machine) Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Protection Society Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Weavers' Association General Union...
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secretary. The union was affiliated to the Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association (ATWA), and in 1926 he was elected as general secretary of the...
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were: Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers Amalgamated Felt Hat Trimers', Woolformers' and Allied Workers' Union Amalgamated Society...
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Kingdom Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers (ASBSBSW) Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association 1894–1986...
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John Kay (spinning frame) (category Textile workers)
spinning frame in 1767, which marked an important stage in the development of textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution. Born in Warrington in Lancashire...
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Dandy loom (category Textile arts stubs)
Timmins 1993, p. 87. Timmins 1993, pp. 108–118. Benson, Anna (1983). Textile Machines. Shire Library. ISBN 978-0-85263-647-3. Timmins, Geoffrey (1993)...
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the Ten Hours Act, limiting the hours of work of women and children in textile mills. "Prompted solely by humanity and a sense of justice, he spent much...
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workers towards Manchester to take up employment in the cotton spinning and textile industry. This created a demand for cheap housing and Bellhouse and his...
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included the Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen, the General Warp Dressers' Association of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Ball Warpers' Association. The new...
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William Houldsworth (category British textile industry businesspeople)
from 1883 to 1906, and sometime chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association. He was made a baronet in 1887. William Henry Houldsworth was born on...
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Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Mule spinners' cancer (category History of the textile industry)
Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Peter Drinkwater (category British textile industry businesspeople)
Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Furnishing Trades' Association National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks National...
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life engaged to marry the daughter (and heiress) of Peter Drinkwater, a textile manufacturer of Manchester, who in 1794 had bought the Manor of Prestwich...
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for the Ashton Syndicate Texas Mill, for the Ashton Syndicate Bolton Textile Mill, Moses Gate Arrow Vale Mill, Rochdale, listed building Nile Mill,...
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List of mills in Manchester (category Textile mills in Manchester)
coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in Manchester, England. List of warehouses in Manchester Williams...
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Weavers' Triangle (category Textile museums in the United Kingdom)
coincided with the rise of cotton weaving and the use of steam power in textile mills, allowing greater freedom in their placement. The 1840s proved pivotal...
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Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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Amalgamated Society: the Glasgow Calendermens Protective and Funeral Association in 1912, the Nottingham Dyers Association in 1922, the Amalgamated Society...
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of the three amalgamations to which most of the unions belonged: the Amalgamated Weavers' Association (AWA), the Amalgamated Association of Operative...
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dissolved. A series of further amalgamations took place, with the Textile Daymen and Cloth Pattern Makers' Association joining in 1968 and the Leeds and...
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James Burton (millowner) (category Textile manufacturers of England)
Spinners Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General...
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