query: headquarters_location textile machinery makers ltd
supports: Asa Lees was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Oldham, Lancashire. Their headquarters was the Soho Iron Works, Greenacres. It was second only in size to Platt Brothers. Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. Together with several smaller surrounding towns, it is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, of which it is the administrative centre. North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London. Platt Brothers, also known as Platt Bros & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Werneth in Oldham, North West England. The company manufactured textile machinery and were iron founders and colliery proprietors. By the end of the 19th century, the company had become the largest textile machinery manufacturer in the world, employing more than 12,000 workers.  In the recession of the 1930s , Platt Brothers , Howard and Bullough , Brooks and Doxey , Asa Lees , Dobson and Barlow , Joseph Hibbert , John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd. , but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until the 1970 , when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. In 1991 the company name changed to Platt Saco Lowell . The Globe works closed in 1993 .
candidates: cumbria england greater london manchester oldham united kingdom
answer: manchester