Cottonopolis
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Cottonopolis was a 19th-century nickname for Manchester, as it was a metropolis and the centre of the cotton industry.
Manchester from Kersal Moor, by William Wyld in 1852. Manchester acquired the nickname "Cottonopolis" during the early 19th century owing to its many textile factories.
McConnel & Company's cotton mills in Ancoats, c. 1820
Asia House, one of Manchester's packing warehouses
38 and 42 Mosley Street, designed by Edward Walters was built in 1880 for the Manchester and Salford Bank.
Cotton mill
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A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the f
Spinning mills in Ancoats, Manchester, England – representation of a mill-dominated townscape
Lancashire cotton mill, 1914
Marvel's Mill in Northampton, pictured in 1746 – the earliest known pictorial representation of a cotton mill
Richard Arkwright's first 1771 Cromford Mill in Derbyshire, with three of its original five storeys remaining