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
Royal visits to Manchester and Salford during the reign of Queen Victoria Anthem, a moment which was argued as the most celebrated of the visit for its mass public appeal, as well as religious and educational significance: "One of the great moral features of Manchester – The Queen responded with an address in which she expressed her ‘great pleasure…seeing the attention that was paid to the education of the rising generation in Manchester and Salford’. From Peel Park the royal procession continued into Manchester and the combined spectator figure recorded for both boroughs was 800, 000, which the "Times" described as, ‘a population new on the soil, very mixed, very laborious, accustomed