Lancashire Cotton Mill Tour ** WORKING COTTON MILL ** Helmshore Cotton Mill & Wool Mill

See & Hear working Textile Machines in the Last Working Cotton Mill in Rossendale. Skip through the chapters (see below) of the Mill Tour - Raw Cotton to Finished Yarn. How does it all work? Bonus Feature: Original Wool Processing Machines dated 1789. Subtitles Available.

0:00 Intro - The Outside of the Mill.
3:33 Inside the Mill
6:05 Guided Tour of the Mill - Skutcher Machine
11:40 Spinning Floor - Carding Machine
14:30 Working Carding Machine
17:34 Lapping Machine
19:06 Roving Machine
21:55 Spinnning Mule
25:42 Working Spinning Mule
34:08 Wool Mill - Fulling Machines driven by an original waterwheel
38:55 Dolly Scourer Machine
39:46 Mangle Machine and Tenting
42:30 Teasle Raising Machine
43: 29 Bleaching the Cloth
44:35 Weighing the Finished Cloth & Measuring with a Yard Stick
45:15 Story about the Mill Owner
46:46 Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving Looms

Helmshore Cotton Mill: https://new.lancashire.gov.uk/leisure...
Books on the Lancashire Cotton Mills: https://amzn.to/2Y0u40G

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My name is Katie. I was raised in Wardle, Lancashire and now live near London.
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ARNOLD’S ATTIC — Arnold’s family worked in the Lancashire textile mills for generations.
I’m now custodian of the wonderful, vintage textiles & haberdashery found in his attic… a never-ending source of inspiration.