Norman Nicholson the John Rylands Library, Manchester, have bronze busts of Nicholson by Joan Palmer. A memorial stained glass window created by Christine Boyce can be found in St George's Church, Millom. Nicholson's papers are in the John Rylands Library, Manchester Millom Discovery Centre houses information about Norman Nicholson. Nicholson's personal collection of published poetry was acquired by the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from his family. Norman Nicholson's home at 14 St George's Terrace has become a food shop and café; there is a blue plaque on the front of the property, commemorating Nicholson. The Norman Nicholson Society was inaugurated in Millom,
John Rylands He employed 15,000 people in his 17 mills and factories, which produced 35 long tons (39 short tons) of cloth a day. From 1857, John Rylands lived at Longford Hall, in Stretford, an Italianate mansion he built on the site of an earlier house. In 2009 the local council placed a "blue plaque" at the site of Longford Hall to commemorate John and Enriqueta Rylands. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Curriers. Rylands was retired and reserved except in the company of his friends, and always shrank from public office of any kind, although he was not