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Workers Village c.1830

Workers Village c.1830

A workers village was built around the mills c. 1830, and by 1836 its population was approaching 2000.

Facilities for the self-sufficient mill community included a public washing house, bleaching green, graveyard and school. However, with the decline of the textiles industry, the houses making up the village were allowed to fall into disrepair and were condemned in 1913, although it took another twelve years for the local authority to begin demolishing them.

Shuttle Row tenements and the surrounding grounds were eventually bought by the founders of the Livingstone Memorial in 1927.

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