Browse Items (211 total)
- Date contains "1930s"
Sort by:
Revolving Flat Carding Engine at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00116
This is carding, the first process in the Cardroom, where the raw wool or cotton is prepared for subsequent spinning by separating the fibres to form a sliver, this is performed on a revolving flat card made by Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, the…
A Hopper Opener at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00117
This look like a woollen card hopper, but actually the photo was taken in the Blowing Room and shows a hopper opener, feeding a line of machines leading to the scutcher. Cotton comes in press-packed bales, and it must be loosened up or 'opened' and…
Machine Knotting (Warp Tying) at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00118
Machine manufactured by Barber-Colman
Intermediate Roving Frame at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00119
This shows a later process in the Cardroom, the machines are flyer frames, specifically,either intermediate or roving frames. Bobbins from the previous process, eg the slubbing frame, are placed in the creel and pass through the drafting system,…
Drawing Frame at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00120
This is in the cardroom and shows the back of a slubbing frame. The sliver cans in the foreground have come from the drawframes (not shown in this picture). The drawframe sliver is passed through the roller drafting system, which reduces the weight…
Spinning mule in Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00122
This view is of the spinning room and shows a pair of self-acting mules spinning cotton yarn from roving. The spindles are mounted in a moving carriage and move away from the drafting rollers, inserting twist. Usually in cotton spinning, the carriage…
The Weaving Shed at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00125
These are Lancashire looms. The loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842.
Archie Wild Hand Cutting Corduroy, c1930 - CWS00128
At Nutclough Mill.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge, c1930 - CWS00130
Continuing machine stiffening, drying and strengthening.
Cutting at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00132
Archie Wild of Netherwood.
Cutting Cloth at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00136
Alex Wild at work.
Doubling at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00139
These machines are ring doubling frames, made by Howard & Bullough Ltd, Globe Works, Accrington, the world's largest maker of ring frames. They are making a folded (two or more folds) yarn. Bobbins from the bobbin winding frames are placed in the…
Spinning at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00140
This view in the Spinning Room shows ring spinning frames, an alternative process for the production of cotton yarn to the self-acting mule. Rovings from the roving frame are placed in the creel and the ends threaded through the roller drafting…
Interior of the Blowing Room at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00141
This view shows a scutcher, the final process in the Blowing Room. The large roll of cotton, called a 'lap' has been 'doffed' and has a lap rod inserted through the centre, ready to go to the carding machine in the Cardroom. A pile of lap rods is…