GALLERY : A PICTORIAL BACKGROUND TO THE LIFE & TIMES OF WILLIAM ROWBOTTOM, circa 1757 - 1830
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Oldham in 1756

 

1815
The Brierley Map :
Oldham Market Place, High Street &
Yorkshire Street.
Pictorial map drawn from memory.

1817
James Butterworth's Map of Oldham

Oldham in 1824

Old Church from Goldburn, 1760

North-East View of Oldham
from Horse Edge about 1780

Oldham In 1831

The Old Weather Cock
(With statement of account)

St. Peter's Church

South View of the Old
Parish Church of Oldham

 

North-East View of the Old
Parish Church of Oldham

 

Oldham Grammar School in 1830

Henshaw's Blue Coat School, Oldham

 

In the Parish Stocks,
by Alfred Crowquill

Manchester Pillory
(with description)

 

A View of Stockport
Showing Numerous Factories
in 1834

View Towards Manchester

 

Hulme Hall, Near Manchester

Collegiate Church, Manchester
(The Cathedral)

Eccles Wakes 1819
Programme

 

Watt First Tests the Power of Steam

Samuel Crompton
- inventor of 'The Mule'

 

Sir Richard Arkwright

 

1834 - Mule Spinning
Swainson & Birley Mill, Nr. Preston.

1834 Power Loom Weaving
Swainson & Birley Mill, Nr. Preston.

1834
Carding, Drawing and Roving Machines
Swainson & Birley Mill, Nr. Preston.

 

Swainson & Birley Mill, Nr. Preston.
1834

 

One of the First Locomotives

 

Stephenson's 'Rocket'

 

Arkwright's Water Fame

 

Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny

 

Jacquard Loom

 

On the Bridgewater Canal

 

Kings of England in the
Lifetime of William Rowbottom

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809
Author of, 'Rights of Man'

 

April 19th, 1775
Concord Bridge
American War Of Independence

 

'The Peterloo Massacre' in Manchester,
Monday 16th August, 1819

 

Henry Hunt, M.P.
(1773-1835),.

 

Scene of the Cato Street Conspiracy

British House of Commons
1821 - 1823

 

Britain's Protest Against Slavery :
Thomas Clarkson Presiding at a
Convention of the Anti-Slavery Society.

 

The Congress of Vienna, 1815

The Duke of Wellington ...
defeated Napoleon at the
Battle of Waterloo in 1815

 

Military Uniforms of of 1812

 

Horatio, Admiral Lord Nelson

 

'The Glorious First of June' :
The British Victory over the French
off Ushant in 1794

New Lanark Mills -
Robert Owen's Model Factory,
1800 - 1825

 

Sydney as it was in the year 1800

 

Part of map of Van Dieman's Land, from 1837 showing Hobart.

 

Bristol Reform Riots, 1831

Prominent Statesmen
of the early 19th Century

 

William Cobbett (1763-1835)
Journalist, agriculturalist and politician;
MP for Oldham.

 

Sir Robert Peel

 

Bow Street and Police

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 - 1778
Philosopher, Writer, and Composer

The Fellow 'Prentices at Their Looms
from the series, Industry & Idleness
by William Hogarth

The Battle of Trafalgar
by J.M.W. Turner

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
by Caspar David Friedrich

The Parliament of France :
The Assembling of the States-General
May 5th 1789

 

June 1789 - Paris
The Popular Demand for Reform:
The Third Estate at the Tennis Court
Taking the Oath to continue their
Meetings.

Camille Desmoulins
at the Palais Royal

Attack on the Bastille Prison, in Paris,
during the French Revolution

 

The Guillotine's Daily Toll :
Girondins on their Way to Death'

 

Napoleon Bonaparte : 1769 - 1821

 

2nd December 1804
Napoleon Crowning Himself
as Emperor of the French.

 

1815
'The Evening of Waterloo' -
Napoleon, after his Defeat,
Preparing for Flght.