Sujet

Portion of an old broadcloth manufactury, Cranbrook, Kent, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Portion of an old broadcloth manufactury, Cranbrook, Kent, 1857. '...in this locality...cloth manufacture was at one period held in high repute; and Hasted, the historian of Kent, states that it was of so much consequence, and in such estimation, that the greatest landowners in the Weald followed this business; and nearly all the ancient families, some of which are now ennobled, sprang from, and owe their titles to, ancestors who followed this great staple occupation....Our illustration shows part of what was years ago one of the principal cloth manufactories at Cranbrook, the buildings extending some distance down the main street of the town...These remains are not unpicturesque; in which respect they have the advantage over the factory buildings by which they have been superseded'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A75_230

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

10,1Mo (756,2Ko) / 16,6cm x 15,3cm / 1960 x 1805 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings England house houses industry manufacturing trade British color cottage industrial manufacture century material textiles Kent Britain fabric newspapers press cloth textile B&W metaphor engraved engraving textile industry Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black cottage industry half-timbered nineteenth century The Print Collector Cranbrook Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside newspaper Unknown 19th-century