I made my horror - storied and fantasy version. - Below you will find what I am talking about. It's really good story, I recommend to read it, because today it is one of the largest shopping center in Poland.
Firstly i want to show you how it look like now and what my imagination did with it.
After my work:
Before my work:
The noise of working machines, steam billows and the human buzz. At the end of the 19th century, in the place where Manufaktura is located today, a large factory was operating, the largest in the Kalisz-Mazovian industrial district.
The story of her power began in 1835, when Kalman Poznanski's family moved to Lodz from Aleksandrów Łódzki. Merchant Kalman ran a shop with elbow goods and spices at the Old Market Square, he also built the first storey tenement there. A dozen or so years later, he handed over the family business to his son, Izrael, who excellently used all the opportunities that Łódź gave at that time - from a small sleepy town transforming itself into a vibrant multicultural European metropolis.
Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański in 1871 bought the first plots on the west side of the New Town along Ogrodowa Street and began building his own "cotton empire". A year later, the first weaving mill began work, and in it two hundred English mechanical looms powered by a steam engine. From year to year, the factory grew: with more weaving, bleaching, finishing, spinning, or your own gas plant and fire station, and a wealthy manufacturer began the construction of a magnificent palace residence, today one of the most recognizable monuments in Lodz.
At the end of his life, Poznański, with his estimate of 11,000,000 rubles, was considered one of the Kingdom's wealthiest industrialists. After his death, the family business - a huge factory with an extremely modern housing estate for multi-storey workers' houses - was taken over by the eldest son, Ignacy Poznański. He completed the work on the residence and continued the expansion of the factory and the working-class town around it. In 1913, employment in Zakłady Bawełnianych I.K. Poznańskie amounts to 7,000 employees, but during World War I and the interwar period came a period of financial failure of Towarzystwo Akcyjna Zakłady Bawełnianych I.K. Posen. The family in debt at the banks lost their position in the company.
A new stage in the life of the factory came after the Second World War. The nationalized Zakłady Przemysłu Bawełnianego Nr 2, named after Julian Marchlewski, and then the trade name "Poltex", worked for several decades in full swing, co-creating the legend of textile Lodz and giving thousands of jobs to the city's inhabitants.
The 1990s and the time of systemic transformation brought numerous bankruptcies. The crisis did not bypass the plants at Ogrodowa. The complex put into a state of liquidation was destroyed for several years, until at the beginning of the new century a new, great vision appeared that the factory complex, divided into smaller companies, would revive in its entirety. The author of the idea was Mieczysław Michalski, an experienced economist, a man with passion who as the president of the board of Poltex found partners wanting to create a new life in an extraordinary post-industrial space. In 2003, the Apsys Polska company commenced construction works at the former I.K factory. Poznań related to the implementation of the largest revitalization venture in the country. Three years later, on May 17, Manufaktura was put into operation, quickly becoming an important place on the tourist, cultural and commercial map of Łódź.
If you see any grammatical mistakes or something incomprehensible, let me know because my English is still on the "learning" level
