Hope Mill on Pollard Street, in the district of

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, England, is a cotton mill dating from 1824. A steam-driven mill, its engines were constructed by the Birmingham firm of

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. Derelict by the mid-20th century, the building was redeveloped in 2001 and now houses a range of creative industries, including the Hope Mill Theatre. Hope Mill is a

Grade II* listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

History and description

By the early 19th century, Manchester had become one of the world's great textile-producing cities. Its population rose from 75,000 in 1801, to over 300,000 fifty years later. The inner-city area of

became the main centre for factories and mills; largely open fields in the 1780s, "it became one of the most intensely developed industrial centres in the world". The

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court architect,

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, visiting in 1824, wrote, "since the

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400 large new factories for cotton spinning have been built, several of them the size of the

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". Hope Mill was built in 1824 for Joseph Clarke & Sons, textile spinners and

fustian Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is beca ...

weavers. A steam-driven mill, its engines were supplied by

. By the mid-20th century, the building was derelict. In 2001, it was bought and refurbished by a private partnership and now houses a range of creative industries, including the Hope Mill Theatre. The seven-storey building is constructed from red brick and to a rectangular plan. Hope Mill was designated a

in 1994.

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*{{cite book , last1=Hartwell, first1=Clare, last2=Hyde, first2=Matthew, last3=Pevsner, first3=Nikolaus , series=The Buildings of England , title=Lancashire: Manchester and the South East , year=2004 , publisher=Yale University Press , location=New Haven, CT; London , isbn=0-300-10583-5 Textile mills in Manchester Cotton industry in England Former textile mills in the United Kingdom 1824 establishments in England Grade II* listed industrial buildings Grade II* listed buildings in Manchester