Addingham: Founding of the Yorkshire Textile Industry

Addingham might be by-passed today by the Ilkley-Skipton A65; but in the 1700s it was at the forefront of the Yorkshire Textile Industry. In the village can be seen everything from handloom weavers cottages, to the first organised textile factory - a purpose built loomshop at the end of some cottages. It had its own Piece Hall for the buying and selling of cloth. There are some early mills, and it was in Addingham that John Lister (later Lord Masham and owner of Manningham Mills, Bradford) developed velvets here. Nowhere else in Yorkshire, in such a small place, can be traced the development of the textile industry.

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Addingham the Village in Yorkshire in England in the UK.

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Do you have any footage of trains whey there used to be a track in Addingham? The line had gone when I grew up there only bridge left. Would line to see what it looked like with train

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I don’t, but on the History of Ilkley I have them taking down the railway bridge over Brook Street in 1966. If I’ve not yet uploaded that film, will do before Christmas.

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@@aroundaboutyorkshire2776 ah might see the place my dad used to work on Brook Street Valances