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"
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Moston Bottoms in 1911 |
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Moston Bottoms, date unknown |
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Mill at Moston by L.S. Lowry, 1950s |
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Plan of the Township of Moston |
Map photograph from "Moston Characters at Work" by John Ward (1911)
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1845 Ordinance Survey Map |
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