Visist to Queen Street Mill
Tuesday June 2nd 2009
Members and friends took the opportunity to join the Society’s organised visit to Queens Street Mill in Briercliffe and were treated to, not only a guided tour by Queen Street Mill’s Conrad Varley but also a talk on the history of the area and the textile industry by local historian, Roger Frost.
The mill was in use until 1982 but, now run as a museum, it gives a picture of an earlier age, all the original steam-driven power looms and other textile machinery of the Victorian age still being on show.
Conrad Varley demonstrated the various procedures involved in the weaving process from the preparation of the warps, sizing the yarn and winding the bobbins to the actual weaving on the different kinds of looms. Following this most informative and interesting tour, refreshments were served in the museum’s delightful little café.
