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The Warehouse

The following photos are of Queen St Mill, Harle Syke, Burnley, which is a nationally designated textile museum owned by Lancashire County Council. As the last surviving working steam driven weaving mill it illustrates those machines and processes that are no longer present at Grane Mill. 

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The warehouse was where the cloth was brought from the weaving looms to the Warehouse to be inspected for faults by the cloth over-lookers, measured out, plaited, packaged and dispatched.

Cloth plaiting machine - advances the 100yard piece a yard at a time for inspection and folds it in yard plaits to allow the length to be verified.

Cloth piece cutting and inspection table, pre dating the use of powered Plaiting machines.

Warehouse at Queen St Mill - a very similar set up to Grane Mill.

Warp and weft yarn cases - spun cotton from the spinning mills.

This drawing shows the warehouse and offices at Grane. The cloth was brought through the gearing alley doors and processed in the warehouse, then dispatched from the mill via the loading bay.

Click on the drawing to see how the warehouse fitted in to the whole mill.

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