Manchester is built on cotton and the city’s Science and Industry Museum tells the story of the people, places and products that made it and their continuing legacy.
Dubbed 'Cottonopolis', Manchester was once the international centre of the world’s cotton industry. The city imported up to a billion tonnes of raw cotton a year, towns like Bolton and Preston became manufacturing centres and Oldham’s Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd. built textile machines for mills across the world.
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