Murrays' Mills
Georgian brick cotton-spinning complex around a canal basin, among the oldest surviving steam mills.
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This guide to Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester, follows the Scottish brothers Adam and George Murray, who arrived as machine makers and built one of the first great steam-powered cotton complexes of the Industrial Revolution. It steps onto the hot, dusty spinning floors where children worked as piecers and scavengers, and down to the canal basin where barges once unloaded cotton and coal. Stand on Bengal Street facing the long brick range of the Old Mill, and start counting its floors.
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