Atlas Mills, Chorley Old Road, Bolton, Greater Manchester

Photograph taken 1870 -1920 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: OP09246

A view inside the shop of Messrs. Musgrave's Atlas Mills. Atlas Mills was a complex of 8 mills mainly used as textile mills. Musgraves also made their own engines. The engines shown here were intended for the Oriental Spinning and Weaving Company of Bombay. Most of the site has been redeveloped as a supermarket and flats.

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Greater Manchester Bolton

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The machines to the right of this picture are carding machines. These used spiked drums in which the cotton was rotated. This process aligned the fibres, which were then placed in buckets as lengths or 'slivers'. The slivers were combined on a doubling frame, which is the machine that most of these women are working on.

Atlas Mills, Chorley Old Road, Bolton, Greater Manchester

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