Samuel Greg<\/h3>\n
Samuel Greg built a large cotton mill in Styal, south of Manchester. His investment was around \u00a316,000, a lot of money in the late 18th century. His factory was built on land rented from the Earl of Stamford and Warrington and was manned largely by children<\/a> from the local workhouse<\/a>. Greg’s vision led to him becoming a very wealthy man.<\/p>\n Titus Salt made his fortune in the Wool trade. He owned a number of mills<\/a> in Bradford. Salt saw the possibilities of a different type of wool, Alpaca, and established a buying system that ensured that he was the only person able to produce Alpaca wool in this country. His gamble was a definite success and he used his wealth to build a massive new factory<\/a> and village for his workers six miles outside of Bradford. His choice of location was ideal. The site had access to the River Aire, was next to the canal and later had access to the Railways<\/a>. Salts Mill<\/a> was the largest in Europe at the time. Salt made a fortune from Alpaca wool, clothing made from which became the most desirable garments of the era.<\/p>\n Before the Industrial Revolution<\/a> – Famous Factories<\/a> – Women and Children during the Industrial Revolution<\/a> – Migration<\/a> – Inventions and Inventors<\/a> – The Workhouse<\/a> – Life in an Industrial Town<\/a> – Industrialists and Philanthropists<\/a> – Railways and Canals<\/a> – Working Conditions<\/a> – Disease in the Industrial Revolution<\/a> – Chartists and the Peoples Charter<\/a> – Luddites<\/a> – Swing Riots<\/a> – Rebecca Riots<\/a> – Protests, Riots and Conspiracies of the Industrial Age<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Industrialists and Philanthropists of the Industrial Revolution Industrialists are the people who own and develop industry. They were the men who ran the factories of the Industrial Revolution, making their fortunes as a result of their ingenuity, grasp of market forces or good luck. many industrialists were greedy men, with little regard for the well… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"parent":1233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1260","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Titus Salt<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nIndustrial Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n