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Macintosh Works

            Everybody associates Manchester with rain (although statistically inaccurate) and the British with brollies and macks.  It is appropriate therefore that in Hulme close to the River Medlock is a factory that produced the waterproof cloth used to make macks and keep off the Manchester rain and rain around the world.

The cloth takes its name from its inventor Charles Macintosh who invented a way to bond two layers of cloth on either side of a layer of rubber.  The rubber solution was originally manufactured in Glasgow and shipped to Manchester where H. H. Birley built a factory in 1825 to produce Macintosh's patented fabric.  The Macintosh process had some problems but in 1844 one of his associates Thomas Hancock came up with a solution that was much more stable.  It is suggested that he got the idea from Charles Goodyear and patented it before him.

Taken in: UK / England / Manchester (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2021

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