I have mentioned before that at age 16 I went to train as a weaver in a large and very famous Lancashire Cotton Mill in England.
The old black and white film above shows the actual factory and weaving shed and looms where I learned how to be a weaver. The only thing missing is the noise.
It seems the Harris Museum in Preston (my birthplace) is having an exhibition running from June through November. I was thrilled to find the above film on it.
It is worth a visit to the exhibition web site if you want to know more. http://www.revolutionaries.org.uk
Entrance to Horrockses Mill, we entered through the small door under the clock. This picture is also the property of Lancashire County Library Collection.
3 comments:
You always have the most interesting posts. Was the place where you worked just as crowded as that? Wow. Thanks for sharing :)
Yes it was crowded each weaver had 4 to six Looms. I learned how to weave on those old ones but then Automatic Looms were already invented. I moved on to those where each weaver had 20 Looms.(Not as crowed with weavers} After doing that a couple of years I became a "Spare Weaver" it paid more and I would help three weavers fix things that took more than a few minutes to do. They would put the number of the loom with the problem on a slate on the wall and I would work my way down the list. I wish you could have heard how noisy it is in a weaving shed, you have to learn to lip read.
I love when you post stuff like this! It's good to learn more about you. Love all of those old pictures!
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