The Dark Story of Britain's Wool Empire: The Saltaire Mills

Описание: The Dark Story of Britain's Wool Empire: The Saltaire Mills

In 1836, a young wool trader named Titus Salt found a pile of forgotten bales rotting in a Liverpool warehouse. Nobody wanted them. What he did next would create the largest factory on earth, an entire village built to control its workers, and a dynasty that ended in a cursed mansion no one could survive. This is the dark story behind Britain's wool empire and the Saltaire Mills.
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