was a major textile centre with many mills - cotton, worsted & paper. The 1797 Turkey Mills made the paper for the Indian Sutton, Goose Eye & Bancroft mills converted to housing. https://t.co/zTmUwLkqAS

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The branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born 1810. One of the largest manufacturers & contemporary of he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in All Souls in 1887.

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