Cottonopolis · event 9 of 12

1877

The Town Hall opens. Alfred Waterhouse’s Gothic Town Hall is finished after nine years and roughly a million pounds. Ford Madox Brown begins the Great Hall murals two years later: no kings or battles, but weaving, chemistry and drainage.

The Cottonopolis era

  1. 1761
  2. 1781
  3. 1804
  4. 1830
  5. 1838
  6. 1853
  7. 1857
  8. 1858
  9. 1877
  10. 1894
  11. 1900
  12. 1906

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