The entrance to Lower Ashes - MOT00122
Architecture, Archway, Buildings, Cottage Industry, Hall, Hill farming
The entrance to Lower Ashes, a splendid example of the type of house favoured by the well-to-do farmer and merchant clothier of the 17th century.
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The stonecrusher at Sourhall, around 1900. - MOT00121
Cottage Industry, Hill farming, People, People at Work, Places, Sourhall, Stone, Todmorden
The rotating arm and its stone wheel were moved - by animal or man - around a circular base to produce sand for floors, roads and building work. The stone crusher was removed to Bacup town centre in the 1970s.
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Todmorden Hall (rear view) - MOT00120
Architecture, Buildings, Cottage Industry, Hall, Hill farming, Places, Textiles, Todmorden
The door at the top of the steps was the entrance to the "takkin' in shop" of John Fielden, who lived there from 1703 to his death in 1734. This portion was probably added by the same John Fielden for the purpose of his business as a clothier, or cloth maker. He gave out weft and warp to the handloom weavers and 'took in' the finished pieces. He was uncle to Joshua Fielden of Edge End, who founded the firm of Fielden Bros. at Laneside.
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The Growth of the Cottage Industry. - MOT00119
Cottage Industry, Hill farming, People at Work, Spinning, Textiles
A reconstruction, by inhabitants of Old Farm, Mankinholes, of a cottage industry process.
The photograph, taken in 1885 shows John Greenwood, farmer, demonstrating the use of the 'bobbin-joan' a device used in earlier times for winding the spun cotton on to a bobbin.
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The Growth of the Cottage Industry. - MOT00118
Arts & Crafts, Cottage Industry, Hill farming, Painting, People at Work, Textiles, handloom, weavers
Handloom weavers, as depicted by the artist A.W. Bayes of Lumbutts.
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The Growth of the Cottage Industry - MOT00117
Cottage Industry, Hill farming, People at Work, Spinning, Textile
A reconstruction, by inhabitants of Old Farm, Mankinholes, of a cottage industry process. The photograph, taken in 1885, shows Harriet Pilling, demonstrating the use of the 'bobbin-joan' a device used in earlier times for winding the spun cotton on to a bobbin.
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Hill Farming & The Growth of the Cottage Industry - MOT00116
Agriculture, Cottage Industry, Hill farming, People at Work
Three hundred years ago, most of the population would be found in the farms and cottages on the upland "shelf", in areas such as Shore, Mankinholes and Bottomley. Families were self-sufficient, growing and producing most of their own food and clothing.
Gradually, the merchant clothiers, the entrepreneurs of the 17th - 18th century emerged. The domestic system with its "putting-out" system became the norm. Hand loom weavers working at home would take their woven pieces to the clothier at the "takkin' in shop". In return he would furnish them with more wool to be taken home and spun and woven. The clothier would visit the cloth or piece hall to sell the woven pieces and to buy wool.
Haymaking around the turn of the century, Cornholme. This double-exposed photograph shows the farmer, or his labourer, scything the field behind the old Pudsey Road. Lower Laithe Farm can be seen in the background.
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A view of Ratcher and Hough Stones, above Hallbottom - MOT00115
Agriculture, Barrels, Cottage Industry, Farm, Farm house, Farmhouse, Farming, Farms, Hill farming, Places, Quarry, Textiles, Todmorden, Washing Line
Three hundred years ago, most of the population would be found in the farms and cottages on the upland "shelf", in areas such as Shore, Mankinholes and Bottomley. Families were self-sufficient, growing and producing most of their own food and clothing.
Gradually, the merchant clothiers, the entrepreneurs of the 17th - 18th century emerged. The domestic system with its "putting-out" system became the norm. Hand loom weavers working at home would take their woven pieces to the clothier at the "takkin' in shop". In return he would furnish them with more wool to be taken home and spun and woven. The clothier would visit the cloth or piece hall to sell the woven pieces and to buy wool. A view of Ratcher and Haugh Stones, above Holebottom.
The three-storey Ratcher cottage on the right is a typical example of the building constructed specifically for a cottage industry. It was later used as a bobbin factory for Lawrence Wilson from 1823.
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Hill Farming & The Growth of the Cottage Industry. - MOT00114
Agriculture, Boy, Boys, Child, Children, Cottage Industry, Girl, Girls, Hill farming, Kid, People, Toddler, Todmorden
Three hundred years ago, most of the population would be found in the farms and cottages on the upland "shelf", in areas such as Shore, Mankinholes and Bottomley. Families were self-sufficient, growing and producing most of their own food and clothing.
Gradually, the merchant clothiers, the entrepreneurs of the 17th - 18th century emerged. The domestic system with its "putting-out" system became the norm. Hand loom weavers working at home would take their woven pieces to the clothier at the "takkin' in shop". In return he would furnish them with more wool to be taken home and spun and woven. The clothier would visit the cloth or piece hall to sell the woven pieces and to buy wool.
Apart from the people the view has changed little in the past 200 years.
The picture was taken at Hartley Royd Farm c1919, and shows John William Greenwood and his grandchildren Jim and Annie Stansfield. The father of the children was Frank Stansfield who had married John William Greenwood's daughter Sarah in 1905. The couple were from Cornholme. Sarah died in confinement at her sister's in Cornholme in 1909 and Frank later married Mary Ann Collinge in 1910.
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