Heywood During the 1860s Cotton Famine

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The Runaway Slave Who Took the 'Underground Railroad' from the Mississippi to... Heywood?: Learn about John Brown, the runaway slave who found his way from Mississippi to the Lancashire town of Heywood (also known as 'Monkey Town') in the 1850s.
A Timeline of Heywood Mills: A timeline of Heywood mills through the centuries. (Page under construction)
The Deserted Village: Hooley Bridge in 1869: Why the once-thriving Hooley Bridge Mill and village was all but empty in the 1860s.

Monkey Town: The History of Heywood