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Original Text (Annotation: EPW005026 / 1038601)
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Coops Building.HISTORY: established to employ girls redundant as a result of the Cotton Famine of the 1860s.
Clothing factory,1871, by R Todd of Southport,
for Timothy Coop and James Marsden; with large additions of
1888, by Isitt and Verity, and 1892 by W Verity. Yellow and
red brick on rusticated sandstone basement (roof concealed but
probably asphalt). Very large rectangular block on corner
site. Italianate style.
In use as sewing factory up to 1992. '
