These mills could work 24 hours a day with workers ... had a huge impact on the Industrial Revolution. Before Watt’s engine, large spinning looms, like Arkwright’s water frame were powered ...

Worst of all, mills were unventilated. Many workers were stricken with brown lung disease ... Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has ...

Many of the textile mills of the past are still standing proud with some now given a new lease of life. Catherine Scott spoke ...

particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield is famous for its ‘five rivers’- the Don, Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter – and these and their tributaries account for over 30 ...