Keywords: Samuel oldknow 109131.JPG Samuel Oldknow 1756 - 1828 was an English cotton manufacturer He was born in Anderton Chorley Lancashire and served an apprenticeship in his uncle ™s draper ™s shop at Nottingham He then moved to Stockport where he established a mill for the manufacture of muslin In 1793 he opened another mill at Mellor and this was at the same time that he was actively promoting construction of the Peak Forest Canal and the Peak Forest Tramway http //artprints leeds gov uk/index cfm event catalogue product productID 133232 <1928 creator Joseph Wright PD-old-100 Samuel Oldknow Portrait paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby Peak Forest Canal Portrait paintings with the balcony |