Adrian Stott wrote... >Randolph Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Er... why in the world would a woollen mill want cotton? > >At the time, the largest cotton milling area in the world (AIUI) was >around Manchester (UK), Oldham particularly. The damp climate there >was very helpful to cotton yarn and cloth production, and there were >huge coal deposits nearby (carried to the mills by canal to fuel the >steam plant's boilers) . In fact, it was known at the time as >"Cottonopolis". I suspect that is where the US raw cotton was going. >The Manchester area certainly imported a lot of cotton from India etc. > Yebbut, as I said in an earlier post, the cotton went to cotton mills, not woollen mills, which were more likely to be found in Yorkshire.
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