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# Victory Place, Walworth Between 1859 and 1868, the Atlas Dyeworks at Victory Place became ground zero for a chemical revolution that would transform the entire textile industry. It was here that Simpson, Maule & Nicholson didn't merely work with dyes—they cracked the code of synthetic color itsel...

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Victory Place, Walworth

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1859-68, at Victory Place, The Atlas Dyeworks helped start a world industry under Simpson, Maule & Nicholson, who pioneered a family of dazzling Magenta-based dyes; then showing a way to create both families of useful compounds, & new jobs here in science