3-028-513 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Spinning the cotton into yarn: a great spinning-mule in use, 1909. Messrs. Barlow and Jones of Manchester was '...one of the oldest firms in the Cotton Industry...which, confining itself solely to the manufacture of cotton goods and cotton goods only, has established for itself a pre-eminent position, and built up a trade, which extends over the whole world'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.