Edmund Potter

Edmund Potter

Edmund Potter was from a Manchester family and grand father to Beatrix Potter. He was a unitarian and a Liberal.cite book|last=Birch|first=A.H.|title=Small Town Politics, A Study of Political Life in Glossop|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1959|pages=8-38|chapter=2|accessdate=June 2008] Potter moved to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's Boggart Mill, and converted it to a printworks. Originally calico printing was done by hand, but Potter introduced precision machine printing. By 1883, the mill employed 350, and had printed 1 million pieces on 42 machines. It was the world's largest calico printing factory.cite book|last=Quayle|first=Tom|title=The Cotton Industry in Longdendale and Glossopdale|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud,Gloucestershire|date=2006|pages=126|language=English]

;See also List_of_mills_in_Longdendale_and_Glossopdale

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