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Quarry Bank Mill: The Development of a Folk Museum

Price, Sarah M

1978

A dissertation describing the development of Quarry Bank Mill as a museum, tracing the history of the village of Styal where it is situated, the mill and, briefly, the Lancashire cotton industry. In d...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

18 December 1980

Mrs. Blackburn talks about her work in the Leeds tailoring industry: Parents' occupations; sewing from childhood; first job - ladies' dress factory in Woodhouse Lane - machinist, female boss; next job...

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