![]() ![]() The diary was transcribed by Valerie Chancellor and published as Master and Artisan in Victorian England in 1969. Ī park called Cash's Park lies nearby, to the west ( 52☂5′21″N 1☃0′38″W / 52.42245°N 1.51057°W / 52.42245 -1.51057).Ĭash's first factory manager at Kingfield was William Andrews, his diary has been preserved at Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery and Museum ("The Herbert"). The houses still stand, and were Grade II listed on 10 October 1975. They opened for business on 12 October 1857, and the individual workshops were combined into single, large, workspaces in 1862. On the top floor of each cottage was a well-lit work area topshop, known collectively as 'Cash's Topshops', housing a Jacquard loom, powered by a central, steam-powered beam engine. These used bricks, with tiled roofs and mock Tudor barge-boards on the gables. Initially 100 such cottages were planned, but eventually only 48 were built, in two blocks. ![]() In 1857, Cash's commissioned a series of three-storey weavers' cottages on a plot of land alongside the Coventry Canal at Kingfield, and on a road now known as Cash's Lane ( 52☂5′19″N 1☃0′29″W / 52.42208°N 1.50796°W / 52.42208 -1.50796), then in countryside, outside the city boundary. Second block of cottages, facing the Coventry Canal ![]()
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