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Spinning at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00140
This view in the Spinning Room shows ring spinning frames, an alternative process for the production of cotton yarn to the self-acting mule. Rovings from the roving frame are placed in the creel and the ends threaded through the roller drafting…
Spinner - HCC00256
Donated by Denise Ramsden
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.
Section of Machine Shop - ALC00657
This is Marshall's Repetition Works, Whitelee, Mytholmroyd. Thanks to Douglas Robertshaw for identifying it, he worked there in the 1990s.
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…
Printing the Todmorden News in the 1950s - MOT00107
In the 1950s the News and Advertiser under the editorship of Sam Tonkiss was printed on the hot metal press shown in the photograph above - all this was soon to change, as other pictures indicate.
Outside Holme End Works, Hawksclough - ALC00211
The mill was occupied by the Calder Valley Engineering Company, owned by James Maud of Maud's Clog Soles.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge, c1930 - CWS00130
Continuing machine stiffening, drying and strengthening.
Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge - PNH01948
This is a drying machine. After cloth was dyed or washed, it passed through this machine which consisted of cylinders, which were about 1.5 meters long and made of copper or brass. The cylinders were heated by steam and rotated thus drying the…
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.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00113
This boiler ran the steam engine and, heated the mill, and washed the wool. The hopper and automatic stokers were made by "Proctors" of Burnley.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00109
c1960, flywheel, governor, starting handle.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00108
The engineer's workshop situated over the Boiler House all the machines were made by Dixons of Keighley
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00107
The belt drive from the first motion shaft tothe second motion shaft. The wooden sliding door was the entrance to the battery room which was full of lead acid batteries to power the 110 volt lighting in the mill as there was no mains electricty.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00106
This mains electric motor would drive the mill. When the reservoir was full and over-flowed the water would drive the turbine near Sandy Gate. The steam engine would be disconnected but the steam boiler would still be used for washing wool.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00105
This turbine, situated near Sandy Gate, generated electricty using the water from the reservoir on Wadsworth Moor. The cables near the generator would have gone up to the mill.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town, Hebden Bridge - DEP00101
Percy Pollard, mill Engineer, born 12/5/1908, and the fixed water level indicator between the two glass water gauges, the pipes and valves on the left werefor the water injector that put water into the boiler under pressure.
Mitchell Bros Mill, Old Town - DEP00122
c1960. Machine for making wool "Tops".