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Looms - PNH01975
Fielden Bros, Waterside Mill, Todmorden. c1912.
Tenterposts - PNH01157
Used with wooden slats for drying cloth
Brisbane Moss Corduroys, Bridgeroyd Mills, Eastwood. - MOT00279
Brisbane Moss Corduroys: Dyers and Finishers of velvets, velveteens, cords and suedettes, Bridgeroyd Mills, Eastwood. Cutting velveteens at Moss Bros, around 1900.
Mill Interior - ALC09026
Sewing shop decorated for the 1911 Coronation.
Hand Loom Weaver - ALC00786
Possibly Jack-o-Bog Eggs, Wadsworth, the last hand loom weaver in the Calderdale area.
Celebrating the end of war in 1945 - MOT00409
Celebrating the end of the war in Waterside shed, 1945. From left to right, Tommy Hudders, Sid Parton, Gladys Thomas, Vera Bailey, Clifford Mattison, Evelyn Lord, Arnold Brainbridge; front row, Connie Butterworth, Charlie Hartley and Muriel…
The working day. Alma Dawson, weaver - MOT00406
Alma Dawson, aged about 17, weaver at Dawson's in 1943. Like most weavers, Alma looked after 4 looms.
The working day - MOT00405
Weaver's and Tacklers at Emmet's shed, Caldervale Mill, Cornholme, 1913.
Greenwood & Co., Shuttle Makers - MOT00237
Greenwood & Co. took 'room and power' at Salford Mill (where the new units are today) in 1892. Members of the Greenwood family and employees are seen in this photograph in the 1920s.
Joshua Smith's - MOT00188
View across the main weaving shed at Joshua Smith's, 1912.
The Growth of the Cottage Industry - MOT00117
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…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade. - HLS05100
HLS05100. Sewing machinists at treadle sewing machines in a large Machine Room pre- First World War. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made of corduroy…
Hebden Bridge Clothing Trade - HLS05098
Cutting room pre- First World War with sewing machinists in the background with treadle Singer sewing machines. As well as textile mills Hebden Bridge also had a sizeable wholesale clothing trade making ready-to-wear garments. These were mainly made…
Sewing Room, Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge, c1914 - CWS00165
Sewing, hand finishing and stitching off.
