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Published on Aug 2, 2014
If you want to visit:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museums/queen-street-mill-textile-museum/
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Friday Night Steam
A look inside a steam powered textile mill!
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Published on Aug 2, 2014
Spent the day at The Queen Street Mill and Textile Museum on 31st July 2014. There is a number of demonstrations throughout the day of the machinery used by the mill workers in the Weaving Shed and Warehouse and when you are told of the conditions they worked in, you soon realise that the life of a mill worker was not an easy one.
The Engine House is the home of the horizontal tandem engine built by William Roberts Co. in 1894, and is really impressive when you watch it being operated.
Its incredible to watch one loom being operated, and even more incredible when you think these ladies operated up to six looms at a time.
Friendly Staff are always ready to answer any questions you might have. If you have an interest in the history of the Mills or how we used to live and work, a visit to The Queen Street Mill Textile Museum is highly recommended, and very enjoyable.
If you pay a visit you will see that the demonstrations and commentary are far more informative and detailed than shown in this edited video.
On the day of my visit the Queen Street Mill was short staffed. Many thanks to Graeme for all the extra effort you put in on the demonstrations and for all the information.Please have a look at my Queen Street Mill Photos at:
http://www.mollsmyre.co.uk/queen-stre...
If you want to visit:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museums/queen-street-mill-textile-museum/
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Published on Aug 2, 2014
If you want to visit:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/museums/queen-street-mill-textile-museum/
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What a coincidence, we visited a weaving room this morning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving_Room_of_Crossnore_School
ReplyDeleteNo steam though.
Looks like an interesting place! Paterson & Passaic were famous for their weaving mills. They are all gone now.
DeleteGreat video, well made and well edited. I did struggle a bit with understanding what the gentleman was saying, but that problem is partially my hearing loss, and the other part was that he is speaking English, and I speak American.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at the forest of leather belting and I wonder just how many feet of belting are in the mill.
And I bet it was a miserable hellhole of a workplace.
When I was young I worked at a ribbon mill. The heat from those machines was awful!
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