Lancashire and West Yorkshire housed Britain's greatest export in the 19th century. Visit Lancashire and West Yorkshire to find out how cotton was Britain's greatest export in the 19th century. Dr.

When two black bin bags arrived at a community centre in Bradford, few could have guessed at the textile treasures which were inside. But as the bundles were opened, four patchwork quilts in varying ...

Sir Ernest Hall: he ploughed £20 million of his business fortune into Dean Clough, turning it from 'a symbol of despair' on the Halifax skyline into a buzzing community of 3,000 workers, from bankers ...

The Tasmanian Government has offered a $250,000 lifeline to the James Nelson textile mill in Launceston in a bid to keep it open. The mill's Victorian owners announced late last year they wanted to ...

Exeter pupils stepped back in time as part of a hands-on history experience. Year 6 students from Whipton Barton Federation, part of the Ted Wragg Trust, visited Coldharbour Mill in Uffculme, one of ...

The mill was once a major part of the textile industry in Keighley [LDRS] Plans to demolish a 19th Century mill to make way for a modern industrial park have been scrapped. Developers had applied to ...

Tanu Patel (left) and members of the Sewcialise group are the new custodians of the historic quilts which were handed over by Norah McWilliam (right) When two black bin bags arrived at a community ...