Lancashire Cotton Mill Tour ** WORKING COTTON MILL ** Helmshore Cotton Mill & Wool Mill

See & Hear working Textile Machines in the Last Working Cotton Mill in Rossendale. Skip through the chapters (see below) of the Mill Tour - Raw Cotton to Finished Yarn. How does it all work? Bonus Feature: Original Wool Processing Machines dated 1789. Subtitles Available.
0:00 Intro - The Outside of the Mill.
3:33 Inside the Mill
6:05 Guided Tour of the Mill - Skutcher Machine
11:40 Spinning Floor - Carding Machine
14:30 Working Carding Machine
17:34 Lapping Machine
19:06 Roving Machine
21:55 Spinnning Mule
25:42 Working Spinning Mule
34:08 Wool Mill - Fulling Machines driven by an original waterwheel
38:55 Dolly Scourer Machine
39:46 Mangle Machine and Tenting
42:30 Teasle Raising Machine
43: 29 Bleaching the Cloth
44:35 Weighing the Finished Cloth & Measuring with a Yard Stick
45:15 Story about the Mill Owner
46:46 Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving Looms
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[@ericaltmann5711]

Thanks so much for showing the outside of the mill as well as the inside. I can picture my ancestors walking to work, the horse and carts bringing in the wool and bales of cotton from the canal boats. Before my orphan ancestor tried to run away and was sent here to Australia as punishment.

[@ArnoldsAttic]

You’re welcome. Thank you for sharing your story 😊

[@mrmyorky5634]

A very enjoyable video, showing well demonstrated and explained processes that were once commonplace in Lancashire. I served my time as an engineering Fitter at Platt Brothers in Oldham who were a big manufacturer of Textile Machinery. We had a large Development Department in which ongoing problems were looked at. One of these problems that you mentioned in your video was the length of time that it took for these machines to stop in the event of an accident. A solution (which was basically a disc brake) had been designed to stop the rotating cast iron disc inside a Coiler Top, (that wound the cotton into a spiral inside the cans). It did this extremely quickly and was deemed to be a success until one day the shaft holding the heavy iron spinning disc sheared off and the coiler disc flew out narrowly missing the operator. The solution was of course to reduce it's efficiency and accept a couple of seconds slowing down time. Helmshore Mill at that time had some connection with the development department at Platts and I have a vague memory of going there for just a day and being surprised that it was a stone built mill when all our Lancashire mills were brick.

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching and thank you for sharing your memories 😊

[@fahdciwan8709]

great video !!! .... reminisces of times gone by .... Thanks !!!!

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@shellc6743]

Amazing video ... now I can picture some of my ancestors working in Rossendale.

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for your comment. Lovely to meet you - we both share a Lancastrian heritage :)

[@fitzjon4628]

Absolutely Brilliant when cotton WAS King

[@ArnoldsAttic]

So glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@saraknight9252]

My mum worked in this mill, she's 84 now. She worked there when she was 15 her first job..

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for sharing Sara. 😊

[@tinafincham8732]

Really good video. Very clear and interesting. I really enjoyed it. Thank you👍👍

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for your feedback Tina - Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@davids6533]

Both of my paternal grandparents worked in a cotton mill in Floyd County, Georgia U.S.A. back when I was a child. This gives me a better understanding of how hard they worked and in what conditions. Like many other places, the mill is gone now, along with several hundred jobs. This is an interesting video, although I couldn't understand a lot of what was being said. Much appreciated just the same.

[@ArnoldsAttic]

So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching : )

[@rebelcounty2078]

Great Video. 😀 Very interesting. Hope to visit Lancashire some day.

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@eddjordan2399]

amazing museum that

[@ArnoldsAttic]

So glad you enjoyed watching 😊

[@petibori7574]

Nice video!

[@ArnoldsAttic]

I'm so glad you like it : )

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you. Please feel free to share it with your friends : )

[@rosewhite---]

Going like the devil is old saying for the speed these machines ran!

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@asifalijan190]

I very interest this is my honor

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@rosewhite---]

What mill has the chimney on the opposite side of the road?

[@ArnoldsAttic]

I’m not sure. There’s lots of industrial history in the area. 😊

[@rosewhite---]

@@ArnoldsAttic It doesn't seem to have any former mills around it so I wonder if it was connected to Helmshore Mill by an underground flue as used in North Yorkshire lead smelters! I grew up next to a brickworks that had a chimney some way from the kiln and the smoke of the coal firing had o travel through floor of kiln into the flue to the separate chimney! It's been years since I had a car and could visit all the museums and working mills. I made carding machines and worked roving, doubling and spinning machines and grandad worked a mule!

[@frankservant5754]

Man these machines are very complicated even today

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@pksingh9167]

I am working in textile industries but samtime job lees can you help me sar

[@ArnoldsAttic]

How can I assist you?

[@vbmbmpro]

workers role in a cotton mill.... is there such a thing as a Trociter ?

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Hi, thank you for the comment - you've got me stumped, I've not heard of that role in a mill. Thank you for watching - Katie : )

[@vbmbmpro]

@@ArnoldsAttic Found it... it was a Twister !!

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Ah yes! There certainly is a role called a Twister : )

[@annemariecandyflip6531]

Very interesting, I feel really bad for the people who had to work in such a terrible place in the beginning of the industrial revolution, especially kids. Circumstances were so harsh and bad! I read the book by Robert Blincoe and got a lump in my throat.......if our ancestors wouldn't have fought for better rights we might have been in their place doing the rotten job.......I know almost for sure if I had lived over there in that century I would have been ending up in a spinning mill. We may have now a reasonable good life in 2022 but it's the ancestors who paid the price for it.......

[@ArnoldsAttic]

Thank you for watching 😊