The decline of the cotton industry left an architectural legacy of empty warehouses, derelict mills, and rows of cramped terraced cottages. Now there is revival, restoration and rebuilding and proposals for World Heritage Site status.
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	Many mills have been demolished as part of redevelopment project, but others are being transformed as part of creative urban planning schemes. More on Mills today			This is a unique record of hundreds of textile mills in the Greater Manchester area, many of which no longer exist. More GM Mill survey
	"will tourists from New Holland or Michigan be someday amusing himself with digging up antique steam engines in Manchester" Richard Compton (1827). More on the role of archaeology