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From Flickr: “Henry Bannerman & Sons Ltd., cotton spinners, manufacturers & merchants, Manchester; advert 1897” by mikeyashworth

Bannerman’s were over 100 years old in 1897 and were one of the earliest and largest integrated cotton companies in that they both spun and wove cotton cloth as well as made it on into finished goods. Founded and based in Manchester, then probably the capital of the world’s cotton Read More →

From Flickr: “Henry Bannerman & Sons Ltd., cotton spinners, manufacturers & merchants, Manchester; advert 1897” by mikeyashworth

Bannerman’s were over 100 years old in 1897 and were one of the earliest and largest integrated cotton companies in that they both spun and wove cotton cloth as well as made it on into finished goods. Founded and based in Manchester, then probably the capital of the world’s cotton Read More →

From Flickr: “Henry Bannerman & Sons Ltd., cotton spinners, manufacturers & merchants, Manchester; advert 1897” by mikeyashworth

Bannerman’s were over 100 years old in 1897 and were one of the earliest and largest integrated cotton companies in that they both spun and wove cotton cloth as well as made it on into finished goods. Founded and based in Manchester, then probably the capital of the world’s cotton Read More →

From Flickr: “Henry Bannerman & Sons Ltd., cotton spinners, manufacturers & merchants, Manchester; advert 1897” by mikeyashworth

Bannerman’s were over 100 years old in 1897 and were one of the earliest and largest integrated cotton companies in that they both spun and wove cotton cloth as well as made it on into finished goods. Founded and based in Manchester, then probably the capital of the world’s cotton Read More →

From Flickr: “Henry Bannerman & Sons Ltd., cotton spinners, manufacturers & merchants, Manchester; advert 1897” by mikeyashworth

Bannerman’s were over 100 years old in 1897 and were one of the earliest and largest integrated cotton companies in that they both spun and wove cotton cloth as well as made it on into finished goods. Founded and based in Manchester, then probably the capital of the world’s cotton Read More →

From Flickr: “A market garden in summer; illustration by C W Bacon from ‘Looking at Britain’, 1959” by mikeyashworth

Another C W Bacon work, this one being a bit more ‘photographic’ in nature. It shows a happy and contented group in a British Market Garden. Such were the pictures of my junior school days in grimy West Bromwich! via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2cipiag

From Flickr: “A market garden in summer; illustration by C W Bacon from ‘Looking at Britain’, 1959” by mikeyashworth

Another C W Bacon work, this one being a bit more ‘photographic’ in nature. It shows a happy and contented group in a British Market Garden. Such were the pictures of my junior school days in grimy West Bromwich! via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2cipiag

From Flickr: “The rise to fame of Southampton Docks – owned and controlled by the Southern Railway of England; brochure, 1931” by mikeyashworth

The Southern Railway (created in 1923 as one of the ‘Big Four’ railways and nationalised in 1948) was mightily proud of their Docks estate at Southampton and they, and their pre-decessors the LSWR, invested heavily in the facilities following the purchase of the old Dock Company in 1892. In the Read More →

From Flickr: “The rise to fame of Southampton Docks – owned and controlled by the Southern Railway of England; brochure, 1931” by mikeyashworth

The Southern Railway (created in 1923 as one of the ‘Big Four’ railways and nationalised in 1948) was mightily proud of their Docks estate at Southampton and they, and their pre-decessors the LSWR, invested heavily in the facilities following the purchase of the old Dock Company in 1892. In the Read More →

From Flickr: “The rise to fame of Southampton Docks – owned and controlled by the Southern Railway of England; brochure, 1931” by mikeyashworth

The Southern Railway (created in 1923 as one of the ‘Big Four’ railways and nationalised in 1948) was mightily proud of their Docks estate at Southampton and they, and their pre-decessors the LSWR, invested heavily in the facilities following the purchase of the old Dock Company in 1892. In the Read More →