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This blue commemorative plaque records: Robert Owen 1771-1858. Welsh entrepreneur and social reformer whose ideas formed the basis of the world-wide co-operative movement. Lived and worked in Manchester for 12 years working first in a business on this site c.1786 Recorded plaque organisation: Manchester City Council.

Robert Owen was a Welsh social reformer and businessman who significantly influenced the development of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, advocating for communal living and workers' rights based on his experiences in Manchester and New Harmony, Indiana.

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