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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…
Cylinder Sizing Machine at Nutclough Mill, 1930 - CWS00115
The machine was manufactured by Howard & Bullough in Accrington, Lancashire. Founded in 1851, the company was a major manufacturer of power looms in the 1860s.
Winding at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00113
These machines are bobbin winding frames. The front one is probably made by Joseph Stubbs Ltd, Manchester, who specialised in winding machinery and had works at Ancoats and Openshaw. The nearest machine is 'assembly winding' ie winding two ends from…
Beaming at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00112
Winding the warp yarns, in one winding operation, onto the weaving beam.
Weaving at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00111
Ethel Crabtree at Work. On her right is a dobby, a mechanism for pattern weaving.
Beaming or Warping at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00110
The picture shows the Warping or Beaming department, technically this is back beam warping, the usual practice in the cotton industry, as opposed to section warping in the woollen and worsted trades. A very large unit!
Nutclough Mill Workers, c1914 - CWS00107
There are various names on the back of this picture, but it is not clear to whom they refer: Lloyd G.M. Hampton, Sam Green, Miss Kitchen, James Cockcroft, Fleta Barnes, Craven, mary Greenwood. At the front: William Hartley, John Greenwood.