Category: British Cotton Industry
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Focus Groups
Our Focus Group will work with us to provide lived experience recordings about the cotton mills in Tameside. We have identified five local community groups who we will work with (listed below), and the first stage will be a series of “Space for Reflection” events that will help us identify and respond to individual requirements.…
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Educational resources
A key deliverable for Roving Museum’s “The British Cotton Industry:Joining the People’s Dots” is to deliver education resources aimed at Key Stage 2 (primary) and Key Stage 3 (secondary) children. Work on this has started with a draft for a first resource created, authored by our Chair, Agnes Fough (it’s the story of a young…
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GLAM partner confirmed
As noted in our previous post, we hope to make an application to the National Archives for a grant, and their criteria require that a community group should partner with a GLAM organisation. Roving Museum Chair Agnes Fough has had a long working relationship with Ashton’s Portland Basin Museum. In 2022, the museum approached Agnes…
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A mill relic
Trustee Bruce Levitan visited Marple Memorial Park on 11 August 2026 with his family. It was a beautiful sunny day. Along the path he spotted a relic of Bottoms Cotton Mill (or Mellor Mill) – the old headstone, which you can see in the photograph below. Bottoms Mill, also known as Mellor Mill, was a…
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The Portico’s Global Threads
On Friday 4th June 2026, I joined the Global Thread Team who in partnership with The Portico Library have published a series of original research case studies, tracing the Trans-Atlantic connections of the library’s foundation in 1806 and the activities of some of its key proprietors in the first two decades of its existence. I…
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Some more news
So, where have we got to so far? We have completed the quite long process of registering as a charity – you can check out our constitution on the Charity page, and we are setting up this website. We have also identified a number of experts to take part in our stakeholders panel – this…
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Our first post
Welcome to Roving Museum! We will publish ongoing news of what we’re up to on this page, so please check back with us from time to time – we really appreciate your interest. At present we are still in the early stages of setting up the charity and launching our first project “The British Cotton…