130 Main Street
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130 Main Street
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 14 Aug 2011
A small hosiery factory, which would have been equipped with framework knitting machines, a bit of an exception when most of the work was done in private dwellings. Built c1830, with the nearer end possibly slightly later. Listed Grade II. In use as a hosiery factory until 1944, later a printing works, currently a curtains and blinds supplier.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.0375
Longitude
-1.090833