The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . n i///,and their factory was fur-nished with Arkwrightsmachinery, and of courseworked by Horrocks in 1791,erected what was knownas the Yellow factory,in Church Street, andsubsequently the Mossfactory, Frenchwoodfactory, Canal factory,and others. The resultof the introduction of thisindustry raised the popu- [From a plate lent by Mr. A. Hewitson]. than twenty early part of the present century witnessed a rapid developmentof the town of Preston, new mills or factories as they were called
The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . n i///,and their factory was fur-nished with Arkwrightsmachinery, and of courseworked by Horrocks in 1791,erected what was knownas the Yellow factory,in Church Street, andsubsequently the Mossfactory, Frenchwoodfactory, Canal factory,and others. The resultof the introduction of thisindustry raised the popu- [From a plate lent by Mr. A. Hewitson]. than twenty early part of the present century witnessed a rapid developmentof the town of Preston, new mills or factories as they were called arose inevery direction ; in their wake came other trades and industries. Canalsand railways followed, and as a necessary consequence whilst great materialprogress was made, many of the old time-honoured customs fell into disuseor were superseded: thus in 1835 the Court Leet ceased to hold itsmeetings, but the Guild continues to be celebrated with its accustomedsurroundings, although the passing of the Municipal Reform Act of 1835abolished many of its ancient trade Of the 1822 Guild, accounts were written by (with illustrations); of the 1842, a similar account was published by W. Pollard, of Preston ; of the1862, several accounts were printed. General History. /J
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