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Work & Industry

Mill operations, workers, and the textile trade

462 items in the archive

Empty room with columns and tables

Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down

Empty room with columns and tables

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Adult jacket

Adult jacket; cream colour with red and green brocade and trimming

Adult jacket

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Steam turbine 2

Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing behind a steam turbine

Steam turbine 2

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Steam turbine 4

Photograph shows a close-up of the steam turbine named 'Mary' after Sir James Roberts granddaughter

Steam turbine 4

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Joiners shop

Photograph shows eleven men working in the joiners' shop

Joiners shop

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Steam turbine 1

Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing in front of a steam engine

Steam turbine 1

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Finishing and washing

Photograph shows the finishing room with two men holding a length of white cloth

Finishing and washing

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Carding 2 Hopper Feed

Hopper Feed on right of photo full of scoured wool going into the carding engine

Carding 2 Hopper Feed

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Engineers shop 1

Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop

Engineers shop 1

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Carding 3 Doffing End

Small machine in left foreground together with doffing end of worsted carding engine

Carding 3 Doffing End

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Steam turbine 5

A close up of the steam turbine 'Mary' named after Sir James Roberts granddaughter

Steam turbine 5

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Cone roving. Drawing room 1

Photograph shows cone roving flyer spinners made by Prince Smith & S Fells of Keighley

Cone roving. Drawing room 1

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Combing 1 Gill Box in combing

Photograph shows 2 workers in the middle of a combing shed

Combing 1 Gill Box in combing

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Steam turbine 3

Photograph shows the steam turbine named after 'Mary', one of Sir James Roberts granddaughters

Steam turbine 3

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Engineers shop 3

Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop

Engineers shop 3

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Engineers shop 2

Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop

Engineers shop 2

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Finishing

Photograph shows finishing machinery

Finishing

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Packing and dispatch

Photograph shows piles of cloth both packed and unpacked

Packing and dispatch

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Dyeing 1

Photograph shows New Mill

Dyeing 1

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Dyeing 2

Male worker standing in the left foreground behind a table piled with two different types of coloured cloth

Dyeing 2

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Carding 4 Doffing

3 carding machines in combing shed

Carding 4 Doffing

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Combing 2 Noble combing

5 circular Noble Combing machines in combing shed producing wool tops

Combing 2 Noble combing

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Nip comber

Nip comber in middle of photograph driven by overhead belts in combing shed

Nip comber

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Gill Box. Drawing room 2

Photograph shows a double can gill box

Gill Box. Drawing room 2

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