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Halstead Mill, Essex: the original centre of the Courtauld textile works
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NOTES: The mill was acquired by the silk weaver Samuel Courtauld in the 1850s and further extended.
Adams and Page lace warehouse, Nottingham
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SOURCE: Builder, vol 12, 1854 Oct. 21, p. 547 NOTES: This building, now listed and called the Adams Building, opened in 1855 and was added to by Hine in phases to 1874. There were further additions in the twentieth century. Acquired by the Lace Market Heritage Trust in 1996 it was restored and now forms part of the city campus of New College Nottingham.
Halstead Mill, Essex: the original centre of the Courtauld textile works
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NOTES: The mill was acquired by the silk weaver Samuel Courtauld in the 1850s and further extended.
Design for the Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice's Bleach Works, Lleweni: design for a curved block with projecting colonnaded lower storey with central entrance surmounted by a clock tower
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NOTES: The Lleweni Bleach Works opened in 1785 for treating linen produced on Fitzmaurice's Irish estates and were probably demolished along with Lleweni Hall between 1816-1818. The completed building is close to this design but with a less elaborate entrance and no clock tower.
Design for the Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice's Bleach Works, Lleweni: preliminary design for a three-storey classical curved block
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NOTES: The Lleweni Bleach Works opened in 1785 for treating linen produced on Fitzmaurice's Irish estates and were probably demolished along with Lleweni Hall between 1816-1818.
Milnsbridge in the Colne Valley near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
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NOTES: Located on the River Colne, Milnsbridge was a centre for the worsted textile industry. The viaduct that runs through the town carries the trans-Pennine Huddersfield Line railway.
Finlayson Factory complex overlooking the Tammerkoski River, Tampere
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NOTES: The Finlayson Factory was founded in 1820 by a Scottish industrialist James Finlayson. The oldest buildings on the site dates from 1838, but the factory has been extended several times up until the 1960s. Manufacturing (largely textiles) ceased in the early 1990s and it is now a museum, cinema and shopping complex.
Atelier Esders, Paris
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SOURCE: Grandes constructions (Paris, 1929), vol. 2. pl. 16 NOTES: The Ateliers Esders was a garment factory.