Lewis Textile Museum
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title:
Lewis Textile Museum
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The Lewis Textile Museum was bequeathed to the people of Blackburn by a local cotton industrialist, Thomas Boys Lewis (1869–1942). The Lewis Textile Museum was closed in 2006 and a new gallery with its collection of looms and textile machinery was moved to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. The gallery which now houses the exhibits at the main Museum & Art Gallery was named CottonTown and opened in April 2007 by Jack Straw, the local Labour MP. The closure of the Lewis Textile Museum caused surpr
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Former museum in Blackburn, Lancashire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Textile_Museum
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2024-01-29T21:21:48Z
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