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Sewing Shop Celebration - EIL00312
This Hebden Bridge sewing shop has been decorated to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, June 1953.
Sewing Room, Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge, c1914 - CWS00165
Sewing, hand finishing and stitching off.
Sewing room, Nutclough Mill, c1914 - CWS00158
This was on the top floor of the mill.
Screen in Dining Room, Kirklees Hall - HLS05941
Slide 14 - Now let us enter by the North Porch, which leads into a passage, and on the right of this we go through a door into the Dining Room. The screen in this room is the finest decorative feature of the house. It dates from the time when a Hall…
Scouring & Dyeing, Nutclough Mill, c1914 - CWS00160
Scouring is taking place in the foreground, with the dyeing jigs behind.
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…
Ramsden Wood Mill - MOT00170
Wood block printers at Ramsden Wood works. The man standing on the left of the table is Matthew Barr, of Walsden.
Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00295
This is the last surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill.
By early 1982 the mill was only operating 440 looms and was no longer financially viable. It finally closed on 12 March 1982, and the mill was mothballed. The mill was rescued by…
By early 1982 the mill was only operating 440 looms and was no longer financially viable. It finally closed on 12 March 1982, and the mill was mothballed. The mill was rescued by…
Queen Street Mill - PNH01420
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…
On the outskirts of…
