Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights - The Industrial Revolution in Marple and Stockport

This is the story of the Industrial Revolution told from the perspective of Samuel Oldknow one of Britain?s most successful entrepreneurs. A fortuitous discovery in the ruins of a cotton mill in 1921 brought to light a mass of letters and account books, deep in dirt and soiled with rain. It is from this material that Unwin produced his now classic account of the Lancashire cotton industry, perhaps as close as one can get to a barometer of the wider economic transformation that rendered Britain the industrial powerhouse of the world...