Coming from the Mill 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 "matchstick men". He also painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes and discordant portraits. He is sometimes referred to as naïvist and often got to hear, to his annoyance, that
City of Salford City of Salford The City of Salford () is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after Salford, but extending west to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden , Little Hulton, and Irlam. The city has a population of 245,600, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton. The city's boundaries, set by the Local Government Act 1972, include five former local government districts. It is bounded on the south east by the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with Manchester, and by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south, which forms its