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is a
British textile and real estate company headquartered in Marsden, West Yorkshire, and incorporated in the United Kingdom. It was historically an important producer of woollen cloth in
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By the late 20th and early 21st century the
Yorkshire textile industry had fallen on hard times, and Bank Bottom Mill closed in 2003, with the loss of 275 jobs.
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and Queen Mary visited the company's mills on 30 May 1918, as a mark of appreciation of the contribution it was making to the continued war effort.
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reached its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries under the ownership of the
Crowther family, in particular
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Business boomed during the 1914-18 war, thanks to the huge demand for woollen cloth needed to clothe men in uniform.
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caused the mill to work short time, and on 4 July 1931 Crowther took his own life.
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Manufacturing companies established in the 19th century
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