Interwar Millionaire's Row Traditional Cache

As stated on both Wikipedia and on the plaque up the road at High Crompton Park, "The introduction of textule manufacture during the Industrial Revolution initiated a process of rapid and unplanned urbanisation. A building boom began in Crompton in the mid-19th century, when suitable land for factories in Oldham was becoming scarce. By the late 19th century, Crompton had emerged as a densely populated mill town with forty-eight cotton mills, some of the largest in the United Kingdom, in the area. At its spinning zenith, as a result of an interwar economic boom associated with the textile industry, Shaw and Crompton had more millionaires per capita than any other town in the world. Imports of foreign cotton goods saw a decline in the textile industry by the mid-20th century and the last mill closed in 1989."

The larger houses in this part of Shaw are some of the old Mill owners houses, with the workers residing in the terraces down the hill towards the old Mills.