Hat Works
Hatting museum in a fireproof cotton mill, with working felt-hat machinery and hundreds of hats.
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This guide to Hat Works in Stockport, on the edge of Manchester, starts with a pair of hands working rabbit fur in a steaming bath, and the chemical trick that turned loose hair into felt. It follows the hatters who breathed that bath in, and the Victorian doctors who went looking for them. Best heard on the museum floors among the old hatting machinery.
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