Items

• 2018.58: Photograph of disused lift

  A card folder containing a photograph of a disused lift. There are metal concertina doors with various pieces of wood and electrial wiring visible.
• 2024.56.1: A weaver loads a pirn of weft thread into a shuttle, 1940s

  Picture of a room in a mill containing several machines. A woman is stood at a machine loading a shuttle.
• B1-032/3/1: Carding 1

  Small machine in left foreground together with carding engines in shed
• B1-032/3/10: Burling and mending

  Photograph shows a number of burling and mending tables with a large pile of grey pieces (unfinished cloth) in the foreground. The shed is decorated with bunting and decorations
• B1-032/3/11: Hank winding

  Photograph shows close ups of four workers standing among machines. There are 6 cupboards containing yarn. The cupboard in the foreground is piled with bobbins. There are four baskets to the right of the picture
• B1-032/3/12: Dyeing 1

  Photograph shows New Mill. Three men are holding a piece of cloth to the right of a wheeled truck. In the background workers stand in front of dyeing machinery. There are two piles of clothv in the foreground - the left is piled with white cloth, the right with darker cloth
• B1-032/3/13: Dyeing 2

  Male worker standing in the left foreground behind a table piled with two different types of coloured cloth. A piece of cloth is suspended over his head. A group of men are in the background
• B1-032/3/14: Finishing

  Photograph shows finishing machinery. On the left hand side a man stands behind a small machine with a group of four men behind him. To the right stands a man with his left arm behind his back
• B1-032/3/15: Finishing and washing

  Photograph shows the finishing room with two men holding a length of white cloth. There is another pile of white cloth to the left of the photograph. To the right is a truck containing coloured cloth with a step ladder behind it.
• B1-032/3/16: Packing and dispatch

  Photograph shows piles of cloth both packed and unpacked. There are six packages to the left of the photograph with six piles of unwrapped cloth in the middle. A man stands to the left of some hats and coats with three dark suited men behind him and another man behind a table holding some cloth
• B1-032/3/17: Engineers shop 1

  Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop. A man stands in the centre of the photograph facing the camera. Three men stand to the left working at a bench. To the right are four wheels standing against two cupboards together with two hats and coats.
• B1-032/3/18: Engineers shop 2

  Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop. There are machines to the left and right with three piles of wheels in the middle. To the right of the picture are two wheels leaning against a machine.
• B1-032/3/19: Engineers shop 3

  Photograph shows the inside of an engineers shop. Eight men are shown in the background. The foreground shows a pile of wheels on the floor.
• B1-032/3/2: Carding 2 Hopper Feed

  Hopper Feed on right of photo full of scoured wool going into the carding engine
• B1-032/3/20: Joiners shop

  Photograph shows eleven men working in the joiners' shop. The man in the left foreground is holding a long thin piece of wood in his right hand whilst leaning a gainst a bench
• B1-032/3/21: Steam turbine 1

  Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing in front of a steam engine
• B1-032/3/22: Steam turbine 2

  Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing behind a steam turbine. He has his right arm raised. The room is highly decorated with wooden panelling and a ceiling light hangs to the right of the photograph
• B1-032/3/23: Steam turbine 3

  Photograph shows the steam turbine named after 'Mary', one of Sir James Roberts granddaughters. The turbine is to the right of the photograph with a clock above it
• B1-032/3/24: Steam turbine 4

  Photograph shows a close-up of the steam turbine named 'Mary' after Sir James Roberts granddaughter. The wall to the right is very ornately tiled
• B1-032/3/25: Steam turbine 5

  A close up of the steam turbine 'Mary' named after Sir James Roberts granddaughter. In the top right is a small section of ornate wall