Sunday 12 March 2017

Pictures of Moston Bottoms

According to A.A. Gomme (19 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 256 1937) Samuel Taylor of Moston, patentee of a thread making engine in the 1720s, "built a house in Moston Bottoms and certainly had more than one mill in his possession on the same water-courses in Moston"

Moston Bottoms in 1911


Moston Bottoms, date unknown

Mill at Moston by L.S. Lowry, 1950s


Plan of the Township of Moston
Map photograph from "Moston Characters at Work" by John Ward (1911)


1845 Ordinance Survey Map

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