Work & Industry
Mill operations, workers, and the textile trade
462 items in the archive

Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down
Empty room with columns and tables
photograph
Adult jacket; cream colour with red and green brocade and trimming
Adult jacket
object
Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing behind a steam turbine
Steam turbine 2
photograph
Photograph shows a close-up of the steam turbine named 'Mary' after Sir James Roberts granddaughter
Steam turbine 4
photograph
Photograph shows eleven men working in the joiners' shop
Joiners shop
photograph
Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing in front of a steam engine
Steam turbine 1
photograph
Photograph shows the finishing room with two men holding a length of white cloth
Finishing and washing
photograph
Hopper Feed on right of photo full of scoured wool going into the carding engine
Carding 2 Hopper Feed
photograph
Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop
Engineers shop 1
photograph
Small machine in left foreground together with doffing end of worsted carding engine
Carding 3 Doffing End
photograph
A close up of the steam turbine 'Mary' named after Sir James Roberts granddaughter
Steam turbine 5
photograph
Photograph shows cone roving flyer spinners made by Prince Smith & S Fells of Keighley
Cone roving. Drawing room 1
photograph
Photograph shows 2 workers in the middle of a combing shed
Combing 1 Gill Box in combing
photograph
Photograph shows the steam turbine named after 'Mary', one of Sir James Roberts granddaughters
Steam turbine 3
photograph
Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop
Engineers shop 3
photograph
Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop
Engineers shop 2
photograph
Photograph shows finishing machinery
Finishing
photograph
Photograph shows piles of cloth both packed and unpacked
Packing and dispatch
photograph
Photograph shows New Mill
Dyeing 1
photograph
Male worker standing in the left foreground behind a table piled with two different types of coloured cloth
Dyeing 2
photograph
3 carding machines in combing shed
Carding 4 Doffing
photograph
5 circular Noble Combing machines in combing shed producing wool tops
Combing 2 Noble combing
photograph
Nip comber in middle of photograph driven by overhead belts in combing shed
Nip comber
photograph
Photograph shows a double can gill box
