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Fielden Bros, Waterside Mill, Todmorden. c1912.

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Built in 1894 for the Queen Street Manufacturing Company the mill closed on the 12th March 1982 and was mothballed. The worlds only surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill. Bringing steam powered weaving to life.

On the outskirts of…

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Queen Street Mill, Briercliffe near Burnley. 1984

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Queen Street Mill, 1984

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Greenwood Stell & Sons Ltd, weaving shed with Northrop ‘T’ and ‘S’ model automatic looms.

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Mrs Parfitt watching a beaming frame, 1949.

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View across the main weaving shed at Joshua Smith's, 1912.

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A view across the 'New' shed at Waterside in 1912. Interior of the large weaving shed at Waterside in 1912. It is now the site of the Morrisons Supermarket.

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These are Lancashire looms. The loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842.
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