Public Works
The Lancashire area has a legacy of municipal parks that were created in this period such as Alexandra Park, Oldham.
More important were the main sewers that were commissioned to replace the collapsing medieval drains and to bring sanitation to the hundred of millworkers cottages that supported the mills. Canals were dug, rivers straightened and new roads constructed such as the cobbled road on Rooley Moor above Norden.
All in all, the public works commissioned in this period, left a major impression on the infrastructure of the towns Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the surrounding cotton areas.
Read more about this topic: Lancashire Cotton Famine
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