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!
This view over the Nutclough, Birchcliffe and Foster Lane areas of Hebden Bridge is part of a photograph held by Allan Moss. Stubbing School was built in 1878, hence the date is given as prior to that.
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.
The former worsted mill was severely damaged by fire in February 1989 with the six storey mill on the right beyond the first bridge totally gutted. This has been sympathetically replaced by an apartment block and the whole mill complex is now…
The Murgatroyd’s Oats Royd Mill before the fire in February 1989 which totally gutted the centre six storey building. This has been sympathetically replaced by an apartment block and the whole mill complex is now residential. At its peak the mill…