The Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) (AABTD) was a British trade union which existed between 1866 and 2002....
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twisters and drawers, but those workers in Lancashire instead joined the Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)...
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Harry Earnshaw (trade unionist) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
in the Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine), a small cotton industry trade union based in Lancashire, and was elected...
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John Kay (flying shuttle) (redirect from John Kay of Bury)
"Chapter V: The fly shuttle-hand shuttle-drop boxes, etc.-John Kay". The history and principles of weaving by hand and by power. S. Low, Marston, Searle...
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
their hands. They were housed in a kind of hostel. Sir Robert Peel advocated for or sided with progressive reforms in legislation, worker's rights and the...
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Dressers, Twisters and Kindred Trades Association joining in 1975. Despite this, its membership fell to only 913 in 1978, and at the end of 1980, it merged...
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Mule spinners' cancer (category History of the textile industry)
left hand; perspiration from the lower part of the abdomen will then tend to run down the left side and the left side and less often the middle of the...
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John Kay (spinning frame) (redirect from John Kay of Warrington)
weaving was already automated, but spinning was still done by hand. Lewis Paul had made a machine using mechanical rollers in 1738, but this had not been a...
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Platt Brothers (category Defunct manufacturing companies of England)
successive models of carding machines, roving frames and self-acting mules in 1868, 1886 and 1900. The self-acting mule was the basis of the company's success...
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Philip Sidney Stott (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
Royal Institute of British Architects and president of the Cirencester and Tewksbury Conservative Association; his role as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire...
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Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 21) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which introduced a compulsory levy on cotton...
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Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation (category National trade union centres of the United Kingdom)
Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Protection Society Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated...
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physically and socially. Born in Leeds, Bellhouse received no formal education. An autodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic...
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loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratchetted the take-up beam. Each time the weaver moved the sley to beat-up the weft, a rachet and pawl mechanism...
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William Houldsworth (category Directors of the London and North Western Railway)
1906, and sometime chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association. He was made a baronet in 1887. William Henry Houldsworth was born on the 20th of August...
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James Burton & Sons was a cotton spinning and manufacturing company established in the middle of the 19th century by James Burton in Tyldesley, Manchester...
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Samuel Oldknow (category High Sheriffs of Derbyshire)
engine for turning the winding machine. Mellor Mill was a brick structure six storeys high and 400 feet (120 m) long. As part of its construction the River...
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Nathaniel Eckersley (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Wigan)
mills, Eckersley was a partner of the Wigan Old Bank, formerly Thomas Woodock's, Sons and Eckersley, which amalgamated in 1874 with Parr's Banking Company...
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Peter Drinkwater (category People of the Industrial Revolution)
cotton mill on the River Weaver in Northwich, Cheshire and in 1789 he started construction of the Piccadilly Mill in Manchester. This was the first mill...
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Consultants and Specialists Association and NASUWT remain TUC members. Of the unions in this section, the FDA and POA remain TUC members. Of the unions...
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John Fielden (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham)
did not vote with them. Whigs and the more orthodox Whig-Radicals, therefore, thought the name of one of the machines used in his cotton-spinning business...
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Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 54) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It established the Cotton Board and was responsible for streamlining the industry...
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Cavendish Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne (category Buildings and structures in Ashton-under-Lyne)
the process of winding artificial silk from synthetic fibres on to weavers beams by the Bentinck Street Silk Works company until 1976, and then by Twinglass...
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Cotton Industry Act 1959 (category History of Lancashire)
to help rationalise and modernise the industry including the Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1936 and 1939. Implementation of the Act ran into considerable...
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Matthew Curtis (mayor) (category Mayors of Manchester)
Madely, machine-makers. These firms were involved in the manufacture of equipment for spinning cotton, the former in the production of Dyer's Frame and the...
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William Gray (Conservative politician) (category Mayors of Bolton)
who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874. Gray was the second son of William Gray of Wheatfield, in the Haulgh, Bolton, and his wife Frances Rasbotham...
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Weavers' Triangle (category Buildings and structures in Burnley)
Burnley, like Marsden and Colne, was a centre of the wool industry. It switched to cotton in the first half of the 1800s. Hargreaves' hand-operated spinning...
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Hugh Mason (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ashton-under-Lyne)
Kensington, and was a member of the Reform Club. Mason supported many reformist bills and became a spokesman of the Women's Suffrage Association in 1881....
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James Burton (millowner) (category CS1 maint: date and year)
February 1868) was a cotton merchant and owned several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford in the middle of the 19th century. Burton was born on 22...
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England & 1291735. Manchester 2000 Archived 25 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Williams & Farnie 1992, p. 151 Williams & Farnie 1992, p. 160 Williams...
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