1/ Until the Industrial Revolution SHAW was sparsely populated and consisted of woods, moors and bogs. The local economy depended on sheep for woollen manufacture with small coal pits for fuel and stone quarries for building materials.
To encourage wool production a law existed between 1675 and 1816 requiring all bodies to be buried in woollen garments.
All the Cotton Mills and businesses in Shaw would shut for a fortnight and the town would be like a ghost town..This is when residents of Shaw would go away on holiday.
To encourage wool production a law existed between 1675 and 1816 requiring all bodies to be buried in woollen garments.
2/ During the Industrial revolution (between the years 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840) people from Shaw and Crompton used to be referred to as Shaytonians or Cromptonians. ('Shay' being the then pronunciation of 'Shaw')
This is where the name of the 'Shay Wake' pub originates from...All the Cotton Mills and businesses in Shaw would shut for a fortnight and the town would be like a ghost town..This is when residents of Shaw would go away on holiday.
That holiday period was originally known as "The Shay Wakes" and later became known as 'Oldham Wakes' in the 20th Century.
3/ Following a building boom during the 1860s–1870s, Shaw and Crompton became a mill town, dominated by large rectangular brick-built cotton mills.
The manufacture of textiles in Shaw and Crompton can be traced back to 1474, when a lease dated from that year outlines that the occupant of Crompton Park had spinning wheels, cards and looms, all of which suggest that cloth was being produced in large quantities.
Prior to industrialisation the majority of land was used for grazing sheep, which provided the raw material for a local woollen weaving trade.
Most families were involved with small scale pasture in some way, but they supplemented their incomes by weaving woollens in the domestic system, and selling cloth and linen.
By the Early Modern period the inhabitants of Shaw and Crompton were relatively wealthy.
The most affluent were those involved in cloth and linen, and their wealth was comparable to that of the merchants of Manchester and Salford.
4/ Shaw was originally a sub-district of Crompton. However, due to Shaw's urbanisation following the construction of a major road from Werneth to Littleborough, and the establishment of a post office sub-district named and situated in Shaw, it came to dominate Crompton.
The names merged to form the present day Shaw and Crompton, which boundary markers have used since at least the 1950s.
3/ Following a building boom during the 1860s–1870s, Shaw and Crompton became a mill town, dominated by large rectangular brick-built cotton mills.
The manufacture of textiles in Shaw and Crompton can be traced back to 1474, when a lease dated from that year outlines that the occupant of Crompton Park had spinning wheels, cards and looms, all of which suggest that cloth was being produced in large quantities.
Prior to industrialisation the majority of land was used for grazing sheep, which provided the raw material for a local woollen weaving trade.
Most families were involved with small scale pasture in some way, but they supplemented their incomes by weaving woollens in the domestic system, and selling cloth and linen.
By the Early Modern period the inhabitants of Shaw and Crompton were relatively wealthy.
The most affluent were those involved in cloth and linen, and their wealth was comparable to that of the merchants of Manchester and Salford.
4/ Shaw was originally a sub-district of Crompton. However, due to Shaw's urbanisation following the construction of a major road from Werneth to Littleborough, and the establishment of a post office sub-district named and situated in Shaw, it came to dominate Crompton.
The names merged to form the present day Shaw and Crompton, which boundary markers have used since at least the 1950s.
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