Modern housing and cotton mill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Modern housing and cotton mill by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Modern housing and cotton mill
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 21 Aug 2012
The foreground area was originally part of the Bolton Textile Mill No.1. The area between it and the still-existing Horrockses Mill was filled with traditional late 19th century terraces until redevelopment of the area in the 1980s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.555692
Longitude
-2.40677