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Cottonopolis
The term "Cottonopolis" came into use in about 1870. Cotton Exchange
The commercial centre of Cottonopolis was the exchange's trading hall.
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Cottonopolis
Cottonopolis (kɒt(ə)nˈɒpəlɪs) [f. cotton, after metropolis.] ‘Cotton City’: a sobriquet for Manchester as the centre of the cotton industry.1851 E. L. Blanchard Diary 9 Aug. in Scott & Howard Life E.L.B. (1891) I. 74 Still in the ‘Cottonopolis’. 1886 B. Quaritch Catal. of MSS. 3503 It..deserves to b...
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Cottonian
▪ I. Cottonian, n. nonce-wd. (kəˈtəʊnɪən) [Cf. Cottonopolis.] One whose interests are in the cotton trade; a member of the ‘Manchester school’ of politicians or economists.1846 Ld. Ashburton in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiv. 77 Cobden's speech to the French economists showed great tact and ability....
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Textile industry of Imperial Russia
At the time Manchester was known as Cottonopolis, and De Jersey and Co. played a major role in developing the cotton industry in the Russian Empire.
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-polis repr. Gr. πόλις city, as in metropolis, necropolis; sometimes used (in the form -opolis) to form names or nicknames of cities or towns, e.g. Cottonopolis, Leatheropolis, Porkopolis.1868 W. M. Punshon in Macdonald Life (1887) 305 Cincinnati, the ‘Porkopolis’ of the Union. 1881 Chicago Times 16...
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Rachel Lebowitz
Her third book, Cottonopolis, uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution.
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De Jersey & Co.
They were attracted to Manchester, which had acquired the nickname Cottonopolis by the mid nineteenth century.
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Devonshire Dome
like the 110 horses for which it was designed – to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the ‘sick poor’ coming in for treatment from the ‘Cottonopolis
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Mayfield Baths
The building, behind Manchester Piccadilly station in the Cottonopolis district, was of Italianate design and its pools were nearly long.
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List of warehouses in Manchester
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See also
Architecture of Manchester
Manchester cotton warehouses
Cottonopolis
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Buildings and structures in Manchester
Manchester
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Devonshire Royal Hospital
like the 110 horses for which it was designed) to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the ‘sick poor’ coming in for treatment from the ‘Cottonopolis
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Richard Haworth Ltd
This flourishing cotton manufacturing community came to be referred to as "Cottonopolis".
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William Wyld
His View of Manchester has become an iconic image of the 19th-century Cottonopolis.
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Watts Warehouse
His success as a cotton trader was part of the commercial boom of the 19th century that gave Manchester the name "Cottonopolis", when the city was a global
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Mithi River
The city of Mumbai earned the epithet – 'Cottonopolis of India' due to its vibrant cotton textile mills.
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