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    The Weavers' Triangle is an area of Burnley in Lancashire, England consisting mostly of 19th-century industrial buildings at the western side of town...
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    museums: the Weavers' Triangle Trust operates the Visitor Centre and Museum of Local History in the historic surroundings of the Weavers' Triangle, while the...
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    The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism in the northern celestial hemisphere. The defining vertices of this imaginary triangle are at Altair,...
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    It is one of the few known large orb-weaver spiders that sits facing upwards in its web. Unlike most orb-weavers, which have bulbous abdomens, V. arenata...
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    1890s warehouse - Weavers' Triangle - Leeds and Liverpool Canal...
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    walked from any point, but it is common to start and finish at the Weavers' Triangle Visitor Centre in Burnley. It covers a range of terrain from canal...
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    significantly enhance productivity. But by September 1733 the Colchester weavers, were so concerned for their livelihoods that they petitioned the King...
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    district of West Yorkshire. It is considered to start/end at the Weavers' Triangle Visitor Centre at Burnley Wharf on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal....
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    muslin manufacturer in Britain, with 300 skilled weavers using 500 looms at Stockport and 159 weavers at Anderton. Oldknow's profits were £17,000 for each...
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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  • Burnley Embankment - The Straight Mile". www.weaverstriangle.co.uk. Weavers' Triangle. Retrieved 29 October 2019. Historic England. "AQUEDUCT APPROXIMATELY...
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    Howarth Street and Whittam Street). These streets had been part of the Weaver's Triangle area of Burnley and the buildings, which were in a poor state, were...
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  • Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    and Library; Sister City; Town archives research support), Triangle Guild of Weavers, Triangle Youth Ballet, UNC-CH (Center for the Study of the South;...
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    Burnley Way Pennine Cycleway (NCN68) Listed buildings in Burnley Weavers' Triangle "The Culvert". www.bcthic.org. Burnley Civic Trust Heritage Image...
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    Yorkshire Museums Bancroft Shed Helmshore Mills Queen Street Mill Weavers' Triangle Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Pioneers Richard Arkwright Samuel Crompton...
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    for 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...
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    many weavers operating a variety of different handlooms as there were power-looms. The dandy loom increased the productivity of a hand-loom weaver by 50%...
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  • production in the 1780s. In 1782 he opened his first cotton mill on the River Weaver in Northwich, Cheshire and in 1789 he started construction of the Piccadilly...
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    Rossendale Civic Trust Weavers' Triangle Burnley Burnley Industry Includes the visitor center with Victorian schoolroom and weaver's dwelling, canal toll...
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    because he owned power looms, as well as employing hand-loom weavers: his critics held the weavers' only true friend was Edward Baines, a serial sock-pupeteer...
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    term as Mayor. He married twice: Firstly to Amelia Weaver (1810–1877), daughter of Richard Weaver of Tarvin in Cheshire, by whom he had 2 sons and 1 daughter...
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