Piccadilly Mill, also known as Bank Top Mill[1] or Drinkwater's Mill, owned by Peter Drinkwater, was the first cotton mill in Manchester, England,[2] to be directly powered by a steam engine,[3] and the 10th such mill in the world.[1] Construction of the four-storey mill on Auburn Street started in 1789[3] and its 8 hpBoulton and Watt engine was installed and working by 1 May 1790.[4] Initially the engine drove only the preparatory equipment and spinning was done manually.[5] The mill-wright was Thomas Lowe, who had worked for William Fairbairn and helped with the planning two of Arkwright's earliest factories.[6]
During the early 1790s the mill employed around 500 workers.[4]Robert Owen was employed as the manager in 1792.[5]
Kidd, Alan J. (2013), "Drinkwater, Peter (1750–1801), cotton manufacturer", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 23 December 2013
Miller, Ian; Wild, Chris (2007), A & G Murray and the Cotton Mills of Ancoats, Lancaster Imprints, ISBN978-0-904220-46-9
Nevell, Michael (2007), "The Social Archaeology of Industrialisation: the example of Manchester during the 17th and 18th centuries", in Casella, Eleanor Conlin; Symonds, James (eds.), Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions, Springer, pp. 177–204, ISBN978-0-387-22831-0, retrieved 23 December 2013
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