Textile Manufacturing
Rope making, cotton, silk and woollen mills.
Yore Mill and Yore Bridge, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire.
The mill was built in 1784 as a cotton mill, but after a fire in 1852 it was rebuilt as both a corn and woollen mill. The mill’s woollen products included Balaclava hats for soldiers fighting in the Crimea and red shirts for Garibaldi’s revolutionary army of 19th century Italy!
The 16th century Yore Bridge was widened on this downstream side in 1788.
Yore Mill and the River Ure, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire.
The mill was built in 1784 as a cotton mill, but after a fire in 1852 it was rebuilt as both a corn and woollen mill. The mill’s woollen products included Balaclava hats for soldiers fighting in the Crimea and red shirts for Garibaldi’s revolutionary army of 19th century Italy!
The 16th century Yore Bridge was widened on this downstream side in 1788.
Lappet Mill, Calder Vale at the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
Lappet Mill was founded as a water-powered cotton mill in 1835 by the Jackson brothers. The mill is no longer powered by the River Calder, but it is still working as a textile mill, one of its main products being the red, black and white checked cloth used for Arab headscarves. It is said that Yasser Arafat's headdresses were made here.
Low Mill, Caton, Lancashire.
Low Mill was built for cotton weaving in 1784 on the site of a 13th-century corn mill. The cotton mill was built by the prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader, Thomas Hodgson.
Galgate Silk Mill, Galgate, Lancashire.
The Silk Mill was built for John Armstrong in 1852.
Galgate Silk Mill, Galgate, Lancashire.
The Silk Mill was built for John Armstrong in 1852.
Ropemakers at work in Hawes, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
From 1905-2022, WR Outhwaite and Son used traditional methods to make all kinds of ropes, from church bell ropes to dog leads.
Traditional ropemaking at WR Outhwaite and Sons, the former ropemakers in Hawes, North Yorkshire.
Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Farfield Mill is a restored Victorian woollen mill with working looms exhibitions and a cafe. Open to the public with entrance charge.
Spinning loom machinery by William Whiteley and Sons of Lockwood, Huddersfield at Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, Cumbria.