Nuneaton cotton industry NEW

[dave2]

  My great Grandmother worked as a (Drawing fence tender) in a cotton mill Nuneaton around 1871,
they lived in Navigation Street which i now beleve is called Midland Rd. any info on the cotton mill would be helpfull.
cheers

[Meliora]

Hello, Dave,

Go to this site, scoll down to page 6, you will find an article on a cotton mill.

http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk/publications/journals/I2.pdf

good luck,

Meliora

[dave2]

  Thanks Meliora very interesting reading i'm assuming as to to the size of the factory it would be the only one in that area so a good chance she worked there.
thanks again
Dave

[Al in Vane]

I think you will find there were more than that Dave, Hall and Phillips was a huge one and near to Midland Road, and there were smaller ones as well. Courtaulds came later. I am trying to put my hands on a certain book which should supply more info and if I find it I will get back later

[Al in Vane]

In Whites Directory of 1874 there were four master ribbon weavers in Nuneaton but the main one was Slingsby.
Previously in 1860 Thomas Townsend of Coventry converted the Albion Buildings topshops to cotton spinning and then a second factory was built in Attleborough Road for the Nuneaton Cotton and Weaving Company which was taken over by Fielding and Johnsond in 1886. Two other textile concerns in the town were the Nuneaton Wool Company pf 1864 in Church Street and Listers of Bradford who specialised in silk fabrics and velvet plush.
Hall and Phillips of Atherstone, hat manufacturers, took over their factory in 1868 during the silk trade depression, before that it was a silk factory.
Hope this helps

[dave2]

Thanks Al in vain you know how to complecate things, but hey thats family research for you
Thaks very much for the info will add it to tree info

Dave 2