Robert Owen bronze, Wesley Street, Newtown
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Robert Owen bronze, Wesley Street, Newtown
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 16 Jun 2013
The artwork is in the Wesley Street wall of the town's Argos store. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3514003 Social reformer Robert Owen was born in Newtown in 1771 and died in Newtown in 1858. In 1800 he became manager of a mill in New Lanark, Scotland, where by improving working and housing conditions and providing schools, he created a model community. His ideas stimulated the co-operative movement - the sharing of resources for joint economic benefit. From 1817 onwards, he proposed that villages of cooperation (self-supporting communities run on socialist lines) should be founded. He believed that these would in time replace private ownership. However, his later attempt to run such a community in the USA (named New Harmony) was a failure.
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Image Location
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52.515579
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-3.316794