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A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. [1] Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral part of textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution .
Bleaching (by chemicals under cover, not with bleach fields) continued Huntingtower until 1981. Huntingtower Castle , a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie (c.1541–1584), kidnapped the boy-king James VI , on 22 ...
Longdendale is a valley, part of which is in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. In the valley are the villages of Broadbottom, Hattersley, Hollingworth and Mottram in Longdendale. These villages and the surrounding countryside contain 56 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed ...
Beaumont Shopping Centre, Beaumont Leys; Broadmarsh, Nottingham; Cavendish Arcade, Buxton; Derbion (formerly Intu Derby, formerly Westfield Derby, formerly Eagle Centre); East Midlands Designer Outlet, South Normanton
Silver End has a convenience store and a newsagents. Silver End also has a library, doctor's surgery, pharmacy, dog grooming parlour, Chinese takeaway, fish & chip shop, chicken/pizza takeaway, hairdressers, skate park, two playing fields, football club, tennis court and also is home to a pub and a working Persons' Club.
Southend is a small residential locality in the London Borough of Lewisham in southeast London, England. It was historically a rural village at the south of the parish of Lewisham, Kent that remained undeveloped until after the First World War. It is now a residential suburb, with some large retail stores, within the built-up area of London.
Bleaching was a widely distributed finishing trade in Salford, carried over from the earlier woollen industry. In the 18th century, before the introduction of chemical bleaching, bleaching fields were commonplace, some very close to the town. In 1773 there were 25 bleachers around Salford, most to the west of the township.
Milford is a village in the civil parish of Witley and Milford south west of Godalming in Surrey, England that was a small village in the early medieval period — it grew significantly after the building of the Portsmouth Direct Line which serves Godalming railway station and its own minor stop railway station.