cotton town

Later in the 1800s, Manchester became most important cotton town in the world.

In the mid 19th century Todmorden was a booming, successful cotton town.

In the early days when the cotton towns were expanding rapidly, living conditions for the workers were poor.

The riots went on for three days, extending to all cotton towns in central Lancashire.

Ashmore wrote in 1975 that "Stockport has ceased to be a cotton town."

Friendly feel of a traditional Lancashire cotton town, and plenty of shopping.

She grew up in a segregated cotton town in Louisiana, with parents who barely finished grade school.

In the cotton towns, you can already see that power-looms are creating a new category of human being, the town labourer.

Liverpool enjoyed a physical proximity to the world centre of the industry - the Lancashire cotton towns.

Wigan began to dominate as a cotton town in the late 19th century, and this lasted until the mid-20th century.

“Blytheville is an old, declining cotton town,” he writes, “and many of its Main Street stores are empty.

Confederate flags were flown in many cotton towns.

They started as informal agreements made by one cotton master and his operatives then each cotton town developed their own list.

Chorley was a vital cotton town with many mills littering the skyline up to the late 20th century.

Mattlock's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town's sales: it only went into one printing.

It was a cotton town, which meant that a lot of the folks who shopped there really lived outside of town on farms.

That one you've got there - Cotton Town - that came out just before I got called up.

Bouncing Back "When we left Newport, it was a thriving cotton town, and I hated to leave."

In the American state of Arkansas, beaver tail stew is consumed in Cotton town.

The BNP was once the official opposition in the former cotton town but eight councillors have dwindled to four.

Ahmedabad is an old cotton town with many important mosques and tombs from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

His is the world of old cotton towns, condemned properties, abandoned buildings and houses where torn sofas crest on bowed porch fronts.

River Darwen, Cotton Town.

To remain in a New England town square or a sun-baked cotton town in Oklahoma was to risk soul death.

The Cotton Towns and Regional Specialisation.