Coming from the Mill theater and art gallery complex that opened in 2000 at Pier 8, Salford Quays in Salford in Greater Manchester in the UK, which is named for Lowry. Coming from the Mill "Coming from the Mill" is a painting by British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry from 1930. Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) often painted his surroundings in Pendlebury, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years. His fame lies in images from the industrial districts in the northwest of England from the mid-1900s. He developed a painting style of cityscapes with people, often described as
Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Manchester and Salford Yeomanry cavalry was a short-lived yeomanry regiment formed in response to social unrest in northern England in 1817. The volunteer regiment became notorious for its involvement in the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which as many as 15 people were killed and 400–700 were injured. Often referred to simply as the Manchester Yeomanry, the regiment was disbanded in 1824. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, many textile workers in the newly industrialised towns of northern England lost their jobs as a result of an economic slump connected to the reduced need