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owned by 16 companies. It was at that time the world's second largest cotton spinning company with 3.2 million spindles. In 1953 the company name changed to
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was a notable building. The company took over Alder Mill, Bedford Mill, Firs Mills, Hall Lane Mill,
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Amalgamated
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established in 1929 with headquarters at Howe Bridge Mills in
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The
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The mills were principally in the south
Lancashire and
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A Guide to the
Industrial Archaeology of Manchester
58:and Brooklands Mill (Mather Lane No 3 Mill) in
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851:Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association
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381:B. Hick and Sons / Hick, Hargreaves & Co
1202:Manufacturing companies established in 1929
1131:This article about an English company is a
901:United Textile Factory Workers' Association
891:Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation
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1197:British companies established in 1929
421:Yates & Thom / Yates of Blackburn
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1135:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
856:Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union
401:William Roberts & Co of Nelson
196:Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester
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1217:1953 disestablishments in England
876:General Union of Loom Overlookers
1187:Textile manufacturers of England
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861:Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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43:took over company in the 1960s.
291:Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip)
194:Williams, Mike; Farnie (1992),
180:, Manchester University Press,
1212:1929 establishments in England
719:Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust
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694:Lancashire Cotton Corporation
668:Thomas Whitehead and Brothers
371:W & J Galloway & Sons
472:John Hetherington & Sons
356:Clayton, Goodfellow & Co
108:McNeil & Nevell (2000),
457:Butterworth & Dickinson
17:Combined Egyptian Mills Ltd
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1182:Cotton industry in England
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689:Fine Spinners and Doublers
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96:Williams & Farnie 1992
1100:John Kay (spinning frame)
1095:John Kay (flying shuttle)
740:Cotton-spinning machinery
512:Parr, Curtis & Madely
462:Curtis, Parr & Walton
341:Browett, Lindley & Co
537:Textile Machinery Makers
517:British Northrop Loom Co
436:Woolstenhulmes & Rye
386:John Musgrave & Sons
266:Bradshaw Gass & Hope
176:Briscoe, Lynden (1971),
1054:Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
714:James Burton & Sons
704:Combined Egyptian Mills
542:Tweedales & Smalley
198:, Carnegie Publishing,
750:Magnetic ring spinning
745:DREF friction spinning
426:Willans & Robinson
331:Bateman & Sherratt
138:Combined English Mills
37:Combined English Mills
19:was a British textile
1222:English company stubs
927:Mule spinners' cancer
896:The Textile Institute
866:Cardroom Amalgamation
735:Textile manufacturing
547:T. Wildman & Sons
532:Taylor, Lang & Co
492:Howard & Bullough
482:John Pilling and Sons
416:Urmson & Thompson
326:Ashworth & Parker
910:Employment practices
728:Industrial processes
346:Buckley & Taylor
271:F.W. Dixon & Son
66:at Astley Bridge in
922:Kissing the shuttle
699:Bagley & Wright
638:George Augustus Lee
628:William Houldsworth
598:Nathaniel Eckersley
467:Dobson & Barlow
411:Scott & Hodgson
376:Benjamin Goodfellow
361:Earnshaw & Holt
118:on 24 December 2012
52:Pear Mill, Bredbury
21:joint-stock company
578:Hugh Hornby Birley
522:Pemberton & Co
507:Mather & Platt
487:Harling & Todd
452:Brooks & Doxey
396:Petrie of Rochdale
391:J & W McNaught
336:Boulton & Watt
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1070:Richard Arkwright
1049:Weavers' Triangle
1044:Queen Street Mill
825:Lancashire boiler
755:Open-end spinning
677:Limited companies
643:Charles Macintosh
583:Joseph Brotherton
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983:Oldham (borough)
593:Peter Drinkwater
563:Elkanah Armitage
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1137:expanding it
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1090:Thomas Highs
834:Associations
810:Air-jet loom
795:Roberts Loom
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663:John Rylands
633:John Kennedy
608:William Gray
603:John Fielden
588:James Burton
406:George Saxon
321:Ashton Frost
276:Edward Potts
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169:Bibliography
159:Briscoe 1971
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33:cotton mills
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1105:Robert Owen
815:Rapier loom
790:Water frame
658:Robert Peel
618:Samuel Greg
613:Hannah Greg
573:Hugh Birley
556:Mill owners
122:15 February
64:Holden Mill
1176:Categories
978:Manchester
973:Lancashire
968:Derbyshire
917:More looms
820:Dandy loom
709:Courtaulds
648:Hugh Mason
254:Architects
244:Lancashire
78:References
29:Lancashire
27:, then in
1018:Yorkshire
1003:Stockport
948:LCC mills
366:Fairbairn
48:Stockport
1063:Pioneers
1008:Tameside
993:Rochdale
963:Cheshire
785:Steaming
502:Asa Lees
25:Atherton
1027:Museums
998:Salford
988:Preston
780:Carding
145:10 July
41:Viyella
953:Bolton
247:cotton
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68:Bolton
1013:Wigan
281:Stott
83:Notes
60:Leigh
1133:stub
958:Bury
200:ISBN
182:ISBN
147:2012
124:2012
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