English Fine Cottons: King Cotton returns

Posted on 11 Oct 2016 by Fred Tongue
The mill will have the capacity to produce roughly 1,000 tonnes of cotton per year - image courtesy of English Fine Cottons.

Fred Tongue visited English Fine Cottons in Manchester, a firm looking to re-establish the North West as a cotton spinning colossus.

The first cotton mills in Britain were established in the 1740s, powered by animals or water. Over the next few decades, an astonishing burst of innovation in mill technology helped the UK become a leading light in the production of cotton, and the North West was the jewel in the cotton crown. [caption id="attachment_278673" align="alignright"…

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