Frank Foran
Project Hoarding
Stanley Mill was planned by Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford fame - part of the first development of industrial labour and production. It was never the success (or the size) of New Lanark in Scotland, but it struggled on till the 1980s.
It is interesting to imagine those faces from the past trying to make sense of the world we now inhabit, where these mills are penthouse flats desired by wealthy commuters. To these people, commuting, if it had existed as a word, meant the cart from Bankfoot to Stanley.
If you are interested in Stanley Mills, the project for redevelopment (including a historic site cross-subsidised by the new apartments), you can go to this link:
www.princes-regeneration.org/pmwiki.php?n=PT.StanleyMills
Another useful link is the newEconomic and Social History Group - People and their Industry
Project Hoarding
Stanley Mill was planned by Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford fame - part of the first development of industrial labour and production. It was never the success (or the size) of New Lanark in Scotland, but it struggled on till the 1980s.
It is interesting to imagine those faces from the past trying to make sense of the world we now inhabit, where these mills are penthouse flats desired by wealthy commuters. To these people, commuting, if it had existed as a word, meant the cart from Bankfoot to Stanley.
If you are interested in Stanley Mills, the project for redevelopment (including a historic site cross-subsidised by the new apartments), you can go to this link:
www.princes-regeneration.org/pmwiki.php?n=PT.StanleyMills
Another useful link is the newEconomic and Social History Group - People and their Industry