Steam Engine at Queen Street Mill & Textile Museum, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire.
Queen Street Textile Mill was built in 1894 as a Calico mill, run as a co-operative.
Coal fired boilers supply steam to a 500 horsepower horizontal engine, which in turn drives 308 looms via belts and shafting.
Originally the mill contained over a 1000 looms.
This mill only stopped working commercially in 1982 and is now the largest and most complete steam driven mill left. It is a survivor of hundreds which were once in use in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which employed thousands of people until the mid 1960's.
The noise, dust and general working conditions must have been terrible with all the looms working at once.
This mill is a small sized example most were much larger having several thousand looms and much bigger engines. My film footage at the Trencherfield Mill, shows how big these could be.
An excellent museum and well worth a visit!
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Filmed on 23rd September 2014 during a visit to Queen Street Mill Textile Museum. Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley, Lancashire.
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Spent the day at The Queen Street Mill and Textile Museum on 31st July 2014. There is a number of demonstrations throughout the day of the machinery used by the mill workers in the Weaving Shed and Warehouse and when you are told of the conditions they worked in, you soon realise that the life of a mill worker was not an easy one.
The Engine House is the home of the horizontal tandem engine built by William Roberts Co. in 1894, and is really impressive when you watch it being operated.
Its incredible to watch one loom being operated, and even more incredible when you think these ladies operated up to six looms at a time.
Friendly Staff are always ready to answer any questions you might have. If you have an interest in the history of the Mills or how we used to live and work, a visit to The Queen Street Mill Textile Museum is highly recommended, and very enjoyable.
If you pay a visit you will see that the demonstrations and commentary are far more informative and detailed than shown in this edited video.
On the day of my visit the Queen Street Mill was short staffed. Many thanks to Graeme for all the extra effort you put in on the demonstrations and for all the information.
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Queen Street MIll
On the outskirts of Burnley - a town once dominated by the textile industry, lies Harle Syke, the home of Queen Street Mill, the last surviving, operational steam powered weaving mill in the world. Owned by a workers co-operative 'The Queen Street Manufacturing Company' the mill is a time capsule of the late Victorian age, which produced cloth using Victorian steam driven power looms until its closure in 1982.
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Queen Street Mill, Burnley
The last working steam powered textile mill in the world. Based in Queen Street Mill in Burnley as a museum doing regular demonstrations throughout the week (until 30th September 2016 when they are expecting to close unless new funding becomes available.
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A visit to a Lancashire steam powered mill. July 2016
Helmshore Mill Textile Museum
Nestling side by side in the quiet village of Helmshore in the stunning Rossendale Valley are two original Lancashire textile mills: Higher Mill and Whitaker's Mill together known as Helmshore Mills Textile Museum.
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Burnley Ironworks Mill Steam Engine at the Science museum London
The Burnley Ironworks formed in 1887 built this compound steam engine in 1903 for use at Harle Syke mill.
Situated 3 miles north of Burnley Lancashire Harle Syke is a small village which at one time was home for eleven weaving firms and seven mills.
Queen street mill closed in 1982 and became a museum It is the world's last 19th century steam powered weaving mill, it also has a Burnley Ironworks engine a 500hp tandem compound built in 1895.
Queen Street Mill
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley, Lancashire, England.
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Queens Mill Burnley Steam Engine powering the weaving looms further on in the factory.
This is the original 18th century steam engine that powered the mill in its heyday.
Textiles on Film: Preston's cotton industry
Admire the industrious, nimble-fingered cotton workers at the monumental Horrockses, Crewdson & Co cotton factory in the film Cotton Industry, Preston (1920).
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Acrobat turned filmmaker Will Onda turned out over a 100 films documenting his own family’s events and holidays He also his hometown, Preston, Lancashire, in the early part of the 20th century. After swiftly covering King George V and Queen Mary’s visit to the town the film moves on to its main subject, Preston’s cotton industry, in particular the monumental Horrockses, Crewdson & Co cotton factory on Stanley St.
As well as the classic factory gate scenes popularised in the Edwardian era, Onda ventures inside Horrokses to showcase the industrious, nimble-fingered Prestonians at work inside. John Horrocks set up the textile company in 1791. It manufactured cotton goods that were sold all over the world for over 150 years. The vast works, known locally as ‘The Yellow Factory’, was demolished in the 1960s and 70s. As well as making films, entrepreneurial Will Onda ran a number of cinemas, a theatre and a dance hall. He also set up the Preston Film Service to import and distribute films to cinemas.
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Lancashire Textiles: Last Mill Standing
Lancashire, UK used to supply 40% of the world's cotton fabric. Today, Joe McBride is trying to keep his textile mill alive despite a changed horizon.
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Helmshore Mill
History and background
Higher Mill, which is held in conjuncture with the Higher Mill Trust, was constructed in 1789 and Whitaker's Mill in the 1820s by the Turner family, textile manufacturers from the Blackburn area.
Although a considerable part of Whitaker's Mill was destroyed in a fire in 1857, it was rebuilt shortly afterwards and continued in operation until 1978, at which point it was under the ownership of L. Whitaker & Sons. Helmshore Mills Textile Museum covers a three acre (just over one hectare) site, most of it running alongside the charming River Ogden. In this peaceful and relaxing setting you can explore the lodge banks as far as the weir and railway viaduct and discover a wide variety of riverside plant, insect and animal life.
The chimney of Whitaker's Mill can be seen on a nearby hilltop. The chimney is connected by a flue that runs over the river, under the road and up the hillside. It is located there because it was far cheaper and more effective to build the chimney away from the mill on the hilltop, where the air currents could more easily carry the smoke away, rather than building a very tall chimney next to the mill in the bottom of the valley.
The mill yard has three tunnels running beneath it. One serves the present waterwheel while the other two are redundant tailraces for the original waterwheels that once powered Higher Mill. The two buildings offer a fascinating insight into the development of mill construction during the Industrial Revolution.
Explore the industrial archaeology of the late 18th century Higher Mill, with its wooden beamed ceilings, and mullioned windows, flagstone roof and random stone walls, in contrast with Whitaker's Mill, whose iron pillars, slate roof and dressed stone walls represent later Victorian building methods.
The historical importance of the mills and their surroundings is conveyed by the fact that the site holds Scheduled Ancient Monument status. A new visitor orientation and information building is now situated on the site of the original boiler house, between Whitaker's and Higher Mills.
The buildings have also become a popular filming location, regularly used in TV documentaries such as What the Victorians Did for Us and drama series such as the BBC's 2004 period dramatisation of Mrs Gaskell's North and South starring Richard Armitage.
On the ground floor of Higher Mill is the fully operational, large waterwheel with five pairs of fulling stocks.
There is evidence in the internal architecture of two earlier waterwheels in the form of stone arches and blocked up openings. The first floor of Higher Mill is home to a new, interactive wool story display. Whitakers Mill houses a unique collection of industrial machinery in an authentic setting. The upper floor includes the impressive spinning floor and an exhibition gallery.
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester - Cotton mill. Textiles gallery, MOSi
See the machines that made Manchester’s cotton famous worldwide.
Dubbed Cottonopolis, Manchester was once the international centre of the cotton industry, and Oldham’s Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd. built textile machines for mills across the British Empire. The city’s landscape is still shaped by its textile heritage.
Visit the Textiles Gallery to watch original 19th century machinery spin yarn into cloth in our daily demonstrations.
Learn about the characteristics of different materials, and have a go at braiding and weaving.
Follow the production process through design, printing and finishing, and find out what happens to textiles when they’re recycled.
Industrial Revolution: Spinning Mills
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List of Questions to answer:
1. What are the physics behind the operation of a steam engine?
2. What role does the steam engine play within the larger machine?
3. What alterations were made to steam engine system to incorporate it into a textile mill?
4. What is the significance of the flywheeel?
5. What had to be changed with the steam engine to move it from fixed (on the ground) to mobile (on the train)?
6. What would you have to now plan for because of this change?
6.1: (bonus) How does this account for a landmark in Campbell?