printworks
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“There used to be two big weaving sheds there,” Foster says, pointing away beyond fine leg, “and a boilerhouse across the road, the printworks down the bottom, and a big factory over the back.”
From The Guardian • May 24, 2019
Sarah Mower, ambassador for emerging talent at the British Fashion Council, said Quinn's printworks showed a "community-minded business sense" which was contributing to British fashion manufacturing.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2018
From the allusion, above, to the colliery effort, it would seem that the act for removing women and children from the coalpits preceded the reform of the printworks.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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