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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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2021-01-18

Jnr enjoyed the applause for his magic lantern slideshows of local scenes & his travels abroad in Victoria Hall There’s no record of a children’s show though.

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2019-12-16

Designed by Lockwood & Mawson, architects of part of the 6th floor collapsed at the 1873 Legrams Mill 1908 & crashed to the basement. Five mill girls were injured & one worker died. Now student accommodation.

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2019-09-25

Windhill Manor was home to the Sooty Museum in the 1990s. was created in 1948 by puppeteer Harry Corbett, Harry Ramsden’s nephew. A commemorative stamp was issued 1996.

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2019-09-03

Theories why the 1903 statue of has its back to include to prevent the face being hit by stray balls & to symbolise looking at other horizons. But why place him in the line of fire from a cannon?

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2019-09-03

The sisters often used the library in the Mechanics Institute in where their father Rev Patrick Bronte lectured. The 1868 building was destroyed by fire in 1962 but the very 1st Carnegie Library of 1904 is

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2019-08-10

Shooting in Victoria Hall reported 15 May 1893. Injured treated at Sir 1868 hospital. Drama in

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2019-05-16

The 1st in England was built in in 1904. 3yrs later the Windhill library opened & had a tea room & lecture hall. Closed in 1985, it has been privately owned & neglected since 2006.

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2019-03-29

Jack & The Beanstalk at Windhill Cinderella & Humpty Dumpty in Victoria Hall,

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2018-12-15