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
Salford Railway was opened, terminating at Salford Central railway station. By 1801 the population of both Manchester and Salford was about 94,000. By 1861 this had risen to about 460,000, and so in the same year John Greenwood Jr. made an application to Salford Borough Council and to the Pendleton Turnpike Trust, to build a tramway from Pendleton to Albert Bridge in Salford. The system was innovative in that the rails were designed to be 'flush' with the road surface, with a third central rail to accommodate a perambulator wheel attached to the front axle of the omnibus. Approval was granted