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The Search for the ‘Manchester Seven’

Published on: 24 March 2025

The Manchester Evening News of February 2nd 1997 carried an article on Anglo Japanese trade relations which referred to ‘The Manchester Seven’, a phrase used to describe a group of men who went to Kagoshima, Japan in the 1860s to equip a cotton mill with textile machinery from Platt Brothers of Oldham.

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