CALENDAR. CRAVEN HERALD. 1932.
SLATER BROTHERS
CH. 15/01/1932. Report of a small fire which occurred at 4pm on Friday 8th January in Slater Brothers shed at Wellhouse mill. The dawn in the roof flashed while lighting the gas lamps and set fire to a warp in one of the looms. The fire was extinguished by the workers before the fire brigade arrived. [SG note: ‘flashing over’ in the shed roof was quite a common event when lighting the gas lamps. The cotton dawn is very inflammable but is not dangerous if regularly swept or fired. These flash overs were a fact of life with naked flames in a weaving shed.]
WELLHOUSE MILL. FIRE
CH. 15/01/1932. Report of a small fire which occurred at 4pm on Friday 8th January in Slater Brothers shed at Wellhouse mill. The dawn in the roof flashed while lighting the gas lamps and set fire to a warp in one of the looms. The fire was extinguished by the workers before the fire brigade arrived. [SG note: ‘flashing over’ in the shed roof was quite a common event when lighting the gas lamps. The cotton dawn is very inflammable but is not dangerous if regularly swept or fired. These flash overs were a fact of life with naked flames in a weaving shed.]
GAS LIGHTING IN WEAVING SHEDS. FIRE RISK
CH. 15/01/1932. Report of a small fire which occurred at 4pm on Friday 8th January in Slater Brothers shed at Wellhouse mill. The dawn in the roof flashed while lighting the gas lamps and set fire to a warp in one of the looms. The fire was extinguished by the workers before the fire brigade arrived. [SG note: ‘flashing over’ in the shed roof was quite a common event when lighting the gas lamps. The cotton dawn is very inflammable but is not dangerous if regularly swept or fired. These flash overs were a fact of life with naked flames in a weaving shed.]
FIRE RISK IN WEAVING SHEDS WITH GAS LIGHTING
CH. 15/01/1932. Report of a small fire which occurred at 4pm on Friday 8th January in Slater Brothers shed at Wellhouse mill. The dawn in the roof flashed while lighting the gas lamps and set fire to a warp in one of the looms. The fire was extinguished by the workers before the fire brigade arrived. [SG note: ‘flashing over’ in the shed roof was quite a common event when lighting the gas lamps. The cotton dawn is very inflammable but is not dangerous if regularly swept or fired. These flash overs were a fact of life with naked flames in a weaving shed.]
MORE LOOMS SYSTEM
CH. 22/01/1932. Report of a secret meeting between the heads of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association and the Weaver’s Amalgamation in Manchester on Monday 19th January. This meeting was to try to find a line of accommodation between the Manufacturers and the Weavers. As a result, tha Manufacturers asked the Weaver’s Amalgamation to meet them on Thursday 21st January.
WEAVERS AMALGAMATION AND MORE LOOMS
CH. 22/01/1932. Report of a secret meeting between the heads of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association and the Weaver’s Amalgamation in Manchester on Monday 19th January. This meeting was to try to find a line of accommodation between the Manufacturers and the Weavers. As a result, tha Manufacturers asked the Weaver’s Amalgamation to meet them on Thursday 21st January.
MANUFACTURERS AND MORE LOOMS
CH. 22/01/1932. Report of a secret meeting between the heads of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association and the Weaver’s Amalgamation in Manchester on Monday 19th January. This meeting was to try to find a line of accommodation between the Manufacturers and the Weavers. As a result, tha Manufacturers asked the Weaver’s Amalgamation to meet them on Thursday 21st January.
MILK. FREE, IN SCHOOLS
CH. 05/02/1932. Report that the unemployed workers in Barnoldswick were still agitating for free school meals and footwear for needy children. Stated that the County Council school meals scheme was not as comprehensive as it could be because of the difficulty of finding volunteers to run the service, furthermore, the meals had to be paid for. Free milk for children was available on production of a medical certificate certifying need. The Clerk was instructed to find out more about what people were requesting. In the same meeting the MOH reported on high levels of sickness and absence in schools.
SCHOOLS. MEALS AND MILK
CH. 05/02/1932. Report that the unemployed workers in Barnoldswick were still agitating for free school meals and footwear for needy children. Stated that the County Council school meals scheme was not as comprehensive as it could be because of the difficulty of finding volunteers to run the service, furthermore, the meals had to be paid for. Free milk for children was available on production of a medical certificate certifying need. The Clerk was instructed to find out more about what people were requesting. In the same meeting the MOH reported on high levels of sickness and absence in schools.
MEANS TEST IN BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 05/02/1932. Report of a meeting of the Barnoldswick Cooperative Society at which it was decided to let the Cooperative Hall to the public Assistance Committee for administration of the means test. 35 voted for the motion, 18 against.
COOPERATIVE HALL
CH. 05/02/1932. Report of a meeting of the Barnoldswick Cooperative Society at which it was decided to let the Cooperative Hall to the public Assistance Committee for administration of the means test. 35 voted for the motion, 18 against.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE
CH. 05/02/1932. Report of a meeting of the Barnoldswick Cooperative Society at which it was decided to let the Cooperative Hall to the public Assistance Committee for administration of the means test. 35 voted for the motion, 18 against.
TOBACCO 1932
Wills’s Fireside Flake advertised at 8d per ounce.
ELSLACK RESERVOIR OPENING
CH 04/03/1932. report that the opening ceremony for the Elslack Reservoir is to be held at the reservoir on Saturday 5th March.
WATER SUPPLY. BARNOLDSWICK
CH 04/03/1932. report that the opening ceremony for the Elslack Reservoir is to be held at the reservoir on Saturday 5th March.
MILK RETAILING. BARNOLDSWICK
CH 08/01/1932. Report that Edward Aldersley of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick had been fined 20/- and costs for selling milk without a licence and 10/- and costs for trading as a dairy man and not being registered. Through his son he pleaded ignorance and had now registered. Also reported that Thomas Wright (55) of Lower West Avenue Barnoldswick, a milk vendor had died suddenly after finishing his round.
ALDERSLEY. EDWARD
CH 08/01/1932. Report that Edward Aldersley of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick had been fined 20/- and costs for selling milk without a licence and 10/- and costs for trading as a dairy man and not being registered. Through his son he pleaded ignorance and had now registered. Also reported that Thomas Wright (55) of Lower West Avenue Barnoldswick, a milk vendor had died suddenly after finishing his round.
WRIGHT. THOMAS
CH 08/01/1932. Report that Edward Aldersley of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick had been fined 20/- and costs for selling milk without a licence and 10/- and costs for trading as a dairy man and not being registered. Through his son he pleaded ignorance and had now registered. Also reported that Thomas Wright (55) of Lower West Avenue Barnoldswick, a milk vendor had died suddenly after finishing his round.
MILNER. JOHN
CH. 01/01/1932. Report that vicar of Barnoldswick preached a sermon in Gill Church the previous Sunday to comply with the 1718 will of John Milner which left £3 per annum to the vicar for preaching two sermons, one on John the Baptist’s Day (June 24th) and one on John the Evangelist’s Day (December 27th). The vicar, Rev. J H Warner gave a short history of the tithe in Barnoldswick. After the suppression of the monasteries, the tithes which had belonged to Kirkstall Abbey were taken into the royal exchequer. Elizabeth 1 granted them in 1578 to the Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral of the Fleet who immediately sold them. Later on they passed to Lord Petrie of Essex and after that to various local landowners.
WARNER. REV J H
CH. 01/01/1932. Report that vicar of Barnoldswick preached a sermon in Gill Church the previous Sunday to comply with the 1718 will of John Milner which left £3 per annum to the vicar for preaching two sermons, one on John the Baptist’s Day (June 24th) and one on John the Evangelist’s Day (December 27th). The vicar, Rev. J H Warner gave a short history of the tithe in Barnoldswick. After the suppression of the monasteries, the tithes which had belonged to Kirkstall Abbey were taken into the royal exchequer. Elizabeth 1 granted them in 1578 to the Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral of the Fleet who immediately sold them. Later on they passed to Lord Petrie of Essex and after that to various local landowners.
TITHES. BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 01/01/1932. Report that vicar of Barnoldswick preached a sermon in Gill Church the previous Sunday to comply with the 1718 will of John Milner which left £3 per annum to the vicar for preaching two sermons, one on John the Baptist’s Day (June 24th) and one on John the Evangelist’s Day (December 27th). The vicar, Rev. J H Warner gave a short history of the tithe in Barnoldswick. After the suppression of the monasteries, the tithes which had belonged to Kirkstall Abbey were taken into the royal exchequer. Elizabeth 1 granted them in 1578 to the Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral of the Fleet who immediately sold them. Later on they passed to Lord Petrie of Essex and after that to various local landowners.
CHURCH. IRON AT EARBY
CH. 01/01/1932. In an article on the life of the Rev. L B Morris who was rector of Thornton from 1885 to 1915 it was stated that the iron church at Earby was erected in 1888 after an anonymous donation and was pitch pine panelled on the inside, it seated 270 people. [ No mention of eventual fate of the church. The legend is that it was sold off and became Broughton Road Mission in Skipton but there is no evidence of this and I can see no relationship between the design of the two buildings. The tin mission is still in place in 2002.]
MORRIS. REV L B
CH. 01/01/1932. In an article on the life of the Rev. L B Morris who was rector of Thornton from 1885 to 1915 it was stated that the iron church at Earby was erected in 1888 after an anonymous donation and was pitch pine panelled on the inside, it seated 270 people. [ No mention of eventual fate of the church. The legend is that it was sold off and became Broughton Road Mission in Skipton but there is no evidence of this and I can see no relationship between the design of the two buildings. The tin mission is still in place in 2002.]
THORNTON IN CRAVEN
CH. 01/01/1932. In an article on the life of the Rev. L B Morris who was rector of Thornton from 1885 to 1915 it was stated that the iron church at Earby was erected in 1888 after an anonymous donation and was pitch pine panelled on the inside, it seated 270 people. [ No mention of eventual fate of the church. The legend is that it was sold off and became Broughton Road Mission in Skipton but there is no evidence of this and I can see no relationship between the design of the two buildings. The tin mission is still in place in 2002.]
TIN TABERNACLE IN EARBY
CH. 01/01/1932. In an article on the life of the Rev. L B Morris who was rector of Thornton from 1885 to 1915 it was stated that the iron church at Earby was erected in 1888 after an anonymous donation and was pitch pine panelled on the inside, it seated 270 people. [ No mention of eventual fate of the church. The legend is that it was sold off and became Broughton Road Mission in Skipton but there is no evidence of this and I can see no relationship between the design of the two buildings. The tin mission is still in place in 2002.]
KING. HARTLEY
CH. 01/01/1932. Report of the death of Hartley King (78) of Mill Brow Earby. He was a native of Salterforth but had lived in Earby most of his life and was an overlooker in the cotton industry.
EDMONDSON. JAMES MERCER
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of James Mercer Edmondson (75) of Mercer House, Gisburn Road Barnoldswick. On BUDC 1892-1920. Born at Carleton, he came of Barnoldswick stock the Edmondson family having farmed Lidgett Farm Brogden for over 300 years. As a boy he came to Barlick and worked as a weaver for Bracewell’s for a few years but then went into butchering and for many years had a shop in Newtown near the junction with Church Street. At his death he was chairman of the Long Ing Shed Company Limited.
BUTCHERS. BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of James Mercer Edmondson (75) of Mercer House, Gisburn Road Barnoldswick. On BUDC 1892-1920. Born at Carleton, he came of Barnoldswick stock the Edmondson family having farmed Lidgett Farm Brogden for over 300 years. As a boy he came to Barlick and worked as a weaver for Bracewell’s for a few years but then went into butchering and for many years had a shop in Newtown near the junction with Church Street. At his death he was chairman of the Long Ing Shed Company Limited.
LIDGETT FARM BROGDEN
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of James Mercer Edmondson (75) of Mercer House, Gisburn Road Barnoldswick. On BUDC 1892-1920. Born at Carleton, he came of Barnoldswick stock the Edmondson family having farmed Lidgett Farm Brogden for over 300 years. As a boy he came to Barlick and worked as a weaver for Bracewell’s for a few years but then went into butchering and for many years had a shop in Newtown near the junction with Church Street. At his death he was chairman of the Long Ing Shed Company Limited.
LONG ING SHED CO LTD
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of James Mercer Edmondson (75) of Mercer House, Gisburn Road Barnoldswick. On BUDC 1892-1920. Born at Carleton, he came of Barnoldswick stock the Edmondson family having farmed Lidgett Farm Brogden for over 300 years. As a boy he came to Barlick and worked as a weaver for Bracewell’s for a few years but then went into butchering and for many years had a shop in Newtown near the junction with Church Street. At his death he was chairman of the Long Ing Shed Company Limited.
HARTLEY. ROBERT
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
CLOGGER. BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
JEPP HILL
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
LEGION CLUB
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
IVORY HALL CLUB
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
HARTLEY R. (JUNIOR)CLOGGER
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
HARTLEY GREENWOOD (SENIOR AND JUNIOR)
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of Bob Hartley (80) clogger of Jepp Hill Barnoldswick. He retired at 78 years and was a well known figure, smoking a cigar as he made clogs. He was born at Salterforth but moved to Barlick at 17 years old and had a by-name ‘Bob Greenwood’ after his father, Greenwood Hartley. His father was a clogger and at 12 years old started Bob off in the forge attached to the shop making clog irons. Bob’s first shop was on the site of the Ivory Hall WM club but after a few years he moved to Jepp Hill. He moved for nine years into the premises now owned by the Legion Club but then went back to his old shop where he carried on for more than 50 years. He sold clogs by post all over Britain and exported them abroad as well. He was proud of the fact that he could do every operation except tan the leather. He was associated with the Ivory Hall Club for 40 years and at 70 was made a life member. He made light clogs for athletes, raced pigeons and bred dogs. His youngest son R Hartley carries on in the clogging business and another son, Greenwood Hartley is a grocer down Long Ing.
BROWN. ROBERT BUTCHER
CH. 18/03/1932. Robert Brown, butcher of Barnoldswick was in court accused of stealing a winch the property of James Hague, boat proprietor of 10 Ormerall Terrace Foulridge. It was stated that the defendant and his brother had Greenhill Farm at Salterforth and a sale under distress warrant took place there on January 12th. The winch was sold to James Hague for 3/6 but when he went to collect it, it had gone. The case was dismissed.
HAGUE. JAMES
CH. 18/03/1932. Robert Brown, butcher of Barnoldswick was in court accused of stealing a winch the property of James Hague, boat proprietor of 10 Ormerall Terrace Foulridge. It was stated that the defendant and his brother had Greenhill Farm at Salterforth and a sale under distress warrant took place there on January 12th. The winch was sold to James Hague for 3/6 but when he went to collect it, it had gone. The case was dismissed.
CANAL BOAT PROPRIETOR
CH. 18/03/1932. Robert Brown, butcher of Barnoldswick was in court accused of stealing a winch the property of James Hague, boat proprietor of 10 Ormerall Terrace Foulridge. It was stated that the defendant and his brother had Greenhill Farm at Salterforth and a sale under distress warrant took place there on January 12th. The winch was sold to James Hague for 3/6 but when he went to collect it, it had gone. The case was dismissed.
GREENHILL FARM. SALTERFORTH
CH. 18/03/1932. Robert Brown, butcher of Barnoldswick was in court accused of stealing a winch the property of James Hague, boat proprietor of 10 Ormerall Terrace Foulridge. It was stated that the defendant and his brother had Greenhill Farm at Salterforth and a sale under distress warrant took place there on January 12th. The winch was sold to James Hague for 3/6 but when he went to collect it, it had gone. The case was dismissed.
BUTCHERS
CH. 18/03/1932. Robert Brown, butcher of Barnoldswick was in court accused of stealing a winch the property of James Hague, boat proprietor of 10 Ormerall Terrace Foulridge. It was stated that the defendant and his brother had Greenhill Farm at Salterforth and a sale under distress warrant took place there on January 12th. The winch was sold to James Hague for 3/6 but when he went to collect it, it had gone. The case was dismissed.
BUTCHERS
CH. 18/03/1932. Report of the death of James Mercer Edmondson (75) of Mercer House, Gisburn Road Barnoldswick. On BUDC 1892-1920. Born at Carleton, he came of Barnoldswick stock the Edmondson family having farmed Lidgett Farm Brogden for over 300 years. As a boy he came to Barlick and worked as a weaver for Bracewell’s for a few years but then went into butchering and for many years had a shop in Newtown near the junction with Church Street. At his death he was chairman of the Long Ing Shed Company Limited.
BRADLEY. HENRY
CH. 25/03/1932. Report of the death of Henry Bradley (75) of 26 Park Avenue. Born 1857 in Rainhall Road, he was an overlooker at Coates Mill and in 1890 started farming Prospect Farm, he was there for 22 years until 1912 and then he retired and moved down to Barlick again. He leaves a widow, four sons and five daughters.
COATES MILL
CH. 25/03/1932. Report of the death of Henry Bradley (75) of 26 Park Avenue. Born 1857 in Rainhall Road, he was an overlooker at Coates Mill and in 1890 started farming Prospect Farm, he was there for 22 years until 1912 and then he retired and moved down to Barlick again. He leaves a widow, four sons and five daughters.
PROSPECT FARM
CH. 25/03/1932. Report of the death of Henry Bradley (75) of 26 Park Avenue. Born 1857 in Rainhall Road, he was an overlooker at Coates Mill and in 1890 started farming Prospect Farm, he was there for 22 years until 1912 and then he retired and moved down to Barlick again. He leaves a widow, four sons and five daughters.
MORE LOOMS SYSTEM
CH. 25/03/1932. Report of a meeting of the General Council of the Weavers Amalgamation in Manchester on Saturday 19th of March. The manufacturers proposals were rejected outright largely on the question of the fall-back wage. The weavers wanted 80% the manufacturers offered 66 2/3 %
WEAVERS AND MORE LOOMS
CH. 25/03/1932. Report of a meeting of the General Council of the Weavers Amalgamation in Manchester on Saturday 19th of March. The manufacturers proposals were rejected outright largely on the question of the fall-back wage. The weavers wanted 80% the manufacturers offered 66 2/3 %
WAGE. FALL BACK
The term ‘fall-back’ wage which is found in weaver’s wage negotiations means a minimum wage which is a percentage of the average wage. In 1932 the weavers were demanding 80% and the manufacturers offering 66 2/3 %.
WEAVERS WAGE
The term ‘fall-back’ wage which is found in weaver’s wage negotiations means a minimum wage which is a percentage of the average wage. In 1932 the weavers were demanding 80% and the manufacturers offering 66 2/3 %.
MORE LOOMS SYSTEM
The term ‘fall-back’ wage which is found in weaver’s wage negotiations means a minimum wage which is a percentage of the average wage. In 1932 the weavers were demanding 80% and the manufacturers offering 66 2/3 %.
BRIDGE. JAMES
CH. 22/05/1932. Report of the death of James Bridge (90), joiner. The son of William Bridge, he was born in the Thorneybank district of Burnley in 1842. At the age of 45, in 1887 he came to Barlick to assist his brother in law, the late J Eastwood who, at that time, had taken over Butts Mill and was reconditioning it.
EASTWOOD. J. BUTTS MILL
CH. 22/05/1932. Report of the death of James Bridge (90), joiner. The son of William Bridge, he was born in the Thorneybank district of Burnley in 1842. At the age of 45, in 1887 he came to Barlick to assist his brother in law, the late J Eastwood who, at that time, had taken over Butts Mill and was reconditioning it.
BUTTS MILL
CH. 22/05/1932. Report of the death of James Bridge (90), joiner. The son of William Bridge, he was born in the Thorneybank district of Burnley in 1842. At the age of 45, in 1887 he came to Barlick to assist his brother in law, the late J Eastwood who, at that time, had taken over Butts Mill and was reconditioning it.
GROVE SHED. EARBY
CH. 29/05/1932. There is a vague mention of Grove Shed being closed and this having contributed to Earby’s unemployment figures.
CROW NEST FIRE
CH. 29/05/1932. Report of the destruction by fire of a wooden army hut which was being used as a warehouse by Albert Hartley Ltd at Crow Nest Shed. The hut was next to the Drill Hall and contained ball warps and other equipment.
HARTLEY. ALBERT LTD
CH. 29/05/1932. Report of the destruction by fire of a wooden army hut which was being used as a warehouse by Albert Hartley Ltd at Crow Nest Shed. The hut was next to the Drill Hall and contained ball warps and other equipment.
FIRE AT CROW NEST SHED
CH. 29/05/1932. Report of the destruction by fire of a wooden army hut which was being used as a warehouse by Albert Hartley Ltd at Crow Nest Shed. The hut was next to the Drill Hall and contained ball warps and other equipment.
SOUGH BRIDGE MILL
CH. 06/05/1932. report that Sough Bridge Mill might re-open as a cooperative mill run by former workers. The report says that when R Nutter and Company ceased operations ‘a few weeks ago’, Sough Bridge, Albion and Grove sheds closed down throwing 2000 people out of work.
NUTTER R AND CO LTD
CH. 06/05/1932. report that Sough Bridge Mill might re-open as a cooperative mill run by former workers. The report says that when R Nutter and Company ceased operations ‘a few weeks ago’, Sough Bridge, Albion and Grove sheds closed down throwing 2000 people out of work.
MANUFACTURERS
CH. 06/05/1932. report that Sough Bridge Mill might re-open as a cooperative mill run by former workers. The report says that when R Nutter and Company ceased operations ‘a few weeks ago’, Sough Bridge, Albion and Grove sheds closed down throwing 2000 people out of work.
ALBION SHED EARBY
CH. 06/05/1932. report that Sough Bridge Mill might re-open as a cooperative mill run by former workers. The report says that when R Nutter and Company ceased operations ‘a few weeks ago’, Sough Bridge, Albion and Grove sheds closed down throwing 2000 people out of work.
GROVE SHED EARBY
CH. 06/05/1932. report that Sough Bridge Mill might re-open as a cooperative mill run by former workers. The report says that when R Nutter and Company ceased operations ‘a few weeks ago’, Sough Bridge, Albion and Grove sheds closed down throwing 2000 people out of work.
LONG ING SHED
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
BREAKDOWN. ENGINE
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
ENGINE BREAKDOWN
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
ALDERSLEY. E
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
PICKLES S AND SON
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
NEW ROAD MANUFACTURING CO
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
MIDGLEY’S
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
HARTLEY ALBERT
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
MANUFACTURERS
CH. 13/05/1932. Report of an engine breakdown at Long Ing Shed on Monday 9th of May. 350 operatives are out of work and ‘a Nelson Firm’ are doing the repairs. Firms affected are E Aldersley, S Pickles and Son, New Road Manufacturing Co and Midgely. Albert Hartley who occupy a large part of the shed are not affected as their shed is driven by a separate engine.
VICTORIA MILL EARBY. STRIKE
CH. 20/05/1932. Report of a strike by workers at Charles Shuttleworth and Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers. The owners had reduced weaver’s wages and about 50 weavers walked out. Many of them have been replaced by ‘other labour’. Mr Richard Shuttleworth said that it was either drop wages or close the mill. The firm has 580 looms and 160 weavers. It is believed that the Earby Manufacturers Association has not sanctioned the strike.
WEAVERS STRIKE. VICTORIA MILL 1932
CH. 20/05/1932. Report of a strike by workers at Charles Shuttleworth and Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers. The owners had reduced weaver’s wages and about 50 weavers walked out. Many of them have been replaced by ‘other labour’. Mr Richard Shuttleworth said that it was either drop wages or close the mill. The firm has 580 looms and 160 weavers. It is believed that the Earby Manufacturers Association has not sanctioned the strike.
SHUTTLEWORTH. CHARLES LTD
CH. 20/05/1932. Report of a strike by workers at Charles Shuttleworth and Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers. The owners had reduced weaver’s wages and about 50 weavers walked out. Many of them have been replaced by ‘other labour’. Mr Richard Shuttleworth said that it was either drop wages or close the mill. The firm has 580 looms and 160 weavers. It is believed that the Earby Manufacturers Association has not sanctioned the strike.
MANUFACTURERS
CH. 20/05/1932. Report of a strike by workers at Charles Shuttleworth and Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers. The owners had reduced weaver’s wages and about 50 weavers walked out. Many of them have been replaced by ‘other labour’. Mr Richard Shuttleworth said that it was either drop wages or close the mill. The firm has 580 looms and 160 weavers. It is believed that the Earby Manufacturers Association has not sanctioned the strike.
RUSHTON JAMES
CH. 03/06/1932. James Ruston, weaver, Barnoldswick was fined for inciting an obstruction outside Victoria Mill gates. A crowd of about 300 persons was picketing the mill where the strike against the wage decrease is still going on. Rushton was said to have addressed the crowd and incited them.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
CH. 03/06/1932. James Ruston, weaver, Barnoldswick was fined for inciting an obstruction outside Victoria Mill gates. A crowd of about 300 persons was picketing the mill where the strike against the wage decrease is still going on. Rushton was said to have addressed the crowd and incited them.
VICTORIA MILL EARBY
CH. 03/06/1932. James Ruston, weaver, Barnoldswick was fined for inciting an obstruction outside Victoria Mill gates. A crowd of about 300 persons was picketing the mill where the strike against the wage decrease is still going on. Rushton was said to have addressed the crowd and incited them.
STRIKE. VICTORIA MILL EARBY
CH. 03/06/1932. James Ruston, weaver, Barnoldswick was fined for inciting an obstruction outside Victoria Mill gates. A crowd of about 300 persons was picketing the mill where the strike against the wage decrease is still going on. Rushton was said to have addressed the crowd and incited them.
SOUGH BRIDGE MILL
CH. 03/06/1932. Announcement that Sough Bridge Mill is to re-open as a cooperative shed under the name of Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. There is hope that the portion of Albion Shed formerly occupied by R Nutter and Company might be re-opened by a new form financed by local businessmen. There is no news about Grove Shed, the biggest mill closed by R Nutter’s.
NUTTERS (KELBROOK) LTD
CH. 03/06/1932. Announcement that Sough Bridge Mill is to re-open as a cooperative shed under the name of Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. There is hope that the portion of Albion Shed formerly occupied by R Nutter and Company might be re-opened by a new form financed by local businessmen. There is no news about Grove Shed, the biggest mill closed by R Nutter’s.
ALBION SHED
CH. 03/06/1932. Announcement that Sough Bridge Mill is to re-open as a cooperative shed under the name of Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. There is hope that the portion of Albion Shed formerly occupied by R Nutter and Company might be re-opened by a new form financed by local businessmen. There is no news about Grove Shed, the biggest mill closed by R Nutter’s.
GROVE SHED
CH. 03/06/1932. Announcement that Sough Bridge Mill is to re-open as a cooperative shed under the name of Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. There is hope that the portion of Albion Shed formerly occupied by R Nutter and Company might be re-opened by a new form financed by local businessmen. There is no news about Grove Shed, the biggest mill closed by R Nutter’s.
CHURCH. GILL. ROOF
CH. 10/06/1932. Report that the contracts for the repairs to Gill Church roof and windows. Proctor Barrett and Sons to do the joinery work, and R O’Neill to do the stone slating. The architect is Mr Norman M Barrett.
BARRETT. PROCTOR AND SONS
CH. 10/06/1932. Report that the contracts for the repairs to Gill Church roof and windows. Proctor Barrett and Sons to do the joinery work, and R O’Neill to do the stone slating. The architect is Mr Norman M Barrett.
O’NEILL. R
CH. 10/06/1932. Report that the contracts for the repairs to Gill Church roof and windows. Proctor Barrett and Sons to do the joinery work, and R O’Neill to do the stone slating. The architect is Mr Norman M Barrett.
BARRETT. NORMAN. M
CH. 10/06/1932. Report that the contracts for the repairs to Gill Church roof and windows. Proctor Barrett and Sons to do the joinery work, and R O’Neill to do the stone slating. The architect is Mr Norman M Barrett.
SOUGH BRIDGE MILL
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
COOPERATIVE SHED
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
NUTTERS (KELBROOK) LTD
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
VICTORIA MILL STRIKE 1932
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
SHUTTLEWORTH. CHARLES LTD
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
WEAVERS. STRIKE
CH. 17/06/1932. Report that Sough Bridge Mill has reopened as a cooperative under the title Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd. 50 looms have started and more will follow. The names of the directors have not been released but it is suspected that many are weavers who have invested their life savings. The strike at Victoria Mill of Charles Shuttleworth’s workers against wage reductions continues. Several hundred ex-servicemen paraded on Sunday with brass bands in support of the strikers.
BRACEWELL HALL
CH. 24/06/1932. Report of an open air performance of Merrie England at Bracewell Hall.
INGHAMITE CHAPEL. SALTERFORTH
Ch. 24/06/1932. report of the laying of the foundation stone of the new Inghamite Chapel at Salterforth. The article relates that the new chapel will replace the old one which has stood on the site for 170 years. A glass time capsule was placed under the foundation stone containing a copy of the CH, photographs of the old chapel, several newspapers describing the last service in the old building, a list of the members of the building committee and three coins, a shilling, a penny and a halfpenny. The land on which the chapel stood was sold by John Jackson to William Batty in 1754 and was described as Gateland Croft. The first chapel was built by voluntary labour, the new one will cost £3,000. [See Harold Duxbury for details of the building which was done by Briggs and Duxbury]
JACKSON. JOHN
Ch. 24/06/1932. report of the laying of the foundation stone of the new Inghamite Chapel at Salterforth. The article relates that the new chapel will replace the old one which has stood on the site for 170 years. A glass time capsule was placed under the foundation stone containing a copy of the CH, photographs of the old chapel, several newspapers describing the last service in the old building, a list of the members of the building committee and three coins, a shilling, a penny and a halfpenny. The land on which the chapel stood was sold by John Jackson to William Batty in 1754 and was described as Gateland Croft. The first chapel was built by voluntary labour, the new one will cost £3,000. [See Harold Duxbury for details of the building which was done by Briggs and Duxbury]
BATTY. WILLIAM
Ch. 24/06/1932. report of the laying of the foundation stone of the new Inghamite Chapel at Salterforth. The article relates that the new chapel will replace the old one which has stood on the site for 170 years. A glass time capsule was placed under the foundation stone containing a copy of the CH, photographs of the old chapel, several newspapers describing the last service in the old building, a list of the members of the building committee and three coins, a shilling, a penny and a halfpenny. The land on which the chapel stood was sold by John Jackson to William Batty in 1754 and was described as Gateland Croft. The first chapel was built by voluntary labour, the new one will cost £3,000. [See Harold Duxbury for details of the building which was done by Briggs and Duxbury]
GATELAND CROFT. SALTERFORTH
Ch. 24/06/1932. report of the laying of the foundation stone of the new Inghamite Chapel at Salterforth. The article relates that the new chapel will replace the old one which has stood on the site for 170 years. A glass time capsule was placed under the foundation stone containing a copy of the CH, photographs of the old chapel, several newspapers describing the last service in the old building, a list of the members of the building committee and three coins, a shilling, a penny and a halfpenny. The land on which the chapel stood was sold by John Jackson to William Batty in 1754 and was described as Gateland Croft. The first chapel was built by voluntary labour, the new one will cost £3,000. [See Harold Duxbury for details of the building which was done by Briggs and Duxbury]
RUSHTON. JAMES
CH. 24/06/1932. James Rushton was in court charged with intimidation [in connection with the Victoria Mill strike] He was remanded on bail on his own surety.
VICTORIA MILL
CH. 24/06/1932. James Rushton was in court charged with intimidation [in connection with the Victoria Mill strike] He was remanded on bail on his own surety.
SHUTTLEWORTH. CHARLES. STRIKE
CH. 24/06/1932. James Rushton was in court charged with intimidation [in connection with the Victoria Mill strike] He was remanded on bail on his own surety.
RUSHTON. JAMES
CH. 01/07/1932. James Rushton was found guilty of intimidation in connection with the Victoria Mill strike and was fined £25 and costs of £4-13-0. After the hearing, Rushton was carried shoulder high by his supporters down Skipton Main Street.
VICTORIA MILL
CH. 01/07/1932. James Rushton was found guilty of intimidation in connection with the Victoria Mill strike and was fined £25 and costs of £4-13-0. After the hearing, Rushton was carried shoulder high by his supporters down Skipton Main Street.
SHUTTLEWORTH. CHARLES. STRIKE
CH. 01/07/1932. James Rushton was found guilty of intimidation in connection with the Victoria Mill strike and was fined £25 and costs of £4-13-0. After the hearing, Rushton was carried shoulder high by his supporters down Skipton Main Street.
DOTCLIFFE MILL. WARP SLASHING.
CH. 08/07/1932. Report that about 70 warps were slashed at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. The manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Company found the damage when he opened the mill at 7am on Monday 4th July.
WARP SLASHING
CH. 08/07/1932. Report that about 70 warps were slashed at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. The manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Company found the damage when he opened the mill at 7am on Monday 4th July.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
CH. 08/07/1932. Report that about 70 warps were slashed at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. The manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Company found the damage when he opened the mill at 7am on Monday 4th July.
BAILEY RICHARD
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of the death of Richard Bailey (73) of 10 Park Road Barnoldswick. Before retiring in 1920 Richard Bailey was a partner in the manufacturing firm of Bailey and Roberts which he helped found at Barnsey Shed.
BAILEY AND ROBERTS
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of the death of Richard Bailey (73) of 10 Park Road Barnoldswick. Before retiring in 1920 Richard Bailey was a partner in the manufacturing firm of Bailey and Roberts which he helped found at Barnsey Shed.
BARNSEY SHED
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of the death of Richard Bailey (73) of 10 Park Road Barnoldswick. Before retiring in 1920 Richard Bailey was a partner in the manufacturing firm of Bailey and Roberts which he helped found at Barnsey Shed.
MANUFACTURERS
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of the death of Richard Bailey (73) of 10 Park Road Barnoldswick. Before retiring in 1920 Richard Bailey was a partner in the manufacturing firm of Bailey and Roberts which he helped found at Barnsey Shed.
FLOOD. BARNOLDSWICK 11 JULY 1932
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
CLOUGH MILL
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
SLATER. JOHN AND SONS
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
HORSFIELD. MAURICE
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
CALF HALL SHED
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
HOLDEN. B AND E M
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
CARR. A AND G
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
MONKSWELL SHED
CH. 22/07/1932. Report of progress in the cleaning up after the flood. John Slater’s at Clough Mill reported 60 warps back in and 100 by Monday 25th July. The mill had been disinfected and many workers had given up their annual holidays to help with the work. Maurice Horsfield of Matthew Horsfield and Son at Calf Hall also reported progress. They have been re-taping warps to clean them but much soiled cloth had been sold locally at 1d per yard. He said they had some orders to weave but could give no guarantee that they would be able to keep going. B and E M Holden at Calf Hall and A and G Carr at Crow Nest had given Horsfield’s use of their tape machine and the redundant tape at Monkswell Shed had been requisitioned for the same purpose.
DEMAINE. DANIEL
CH. 29/07/1932. Report that Daniel Demaine a weaver from Barnoldswick was charged with night poaching on the Gledstone Estate at West Marton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months gaol with hard labour. Sidney T England, head gamekeeper for Sir Amos Nelson Ltd and his brother, Edwin England were on duty near Pykely Fields Farm tenanted by John Lawson. Demaine said that as it was holiday week there was no work in Barlick and he had nothing to draw and an order for 7/- a week against him by the court. They stoned the keepers while one of them, an old man, got away.
POACHING
CH. 29/07/1932. Report that Daniel Demaine a weaver from Barnoldswick was charged with night poaching on the Gledstone Estate at West Marton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months gaol with hard labour. Sidney T England, head gamekeeper for Sir Amos Nelson Ltd and his brother, Edwin England were on duty near Pykely Fields Farm tenanted by John Lawson. Demaine said that as it was holiday week there was no work in Barlick and he had nothing to draw and an order for 7/- a week against him by the court. They stoned the keepers while one of them, an old man, got away.
GLEDSTONE ESTATE
CH. 29/07/1932. Report that Daniel Demaine a weaver from Barnoldswick was charged with night poaching on the Gledstone Estate at West Marton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months gaol with hard labour. Sidney T England, head gamekeeper for Sir Amos Nelson Ltd and his brother, Edwin England were on duty near Pykely Fields Farm tenanted by John Lawson. Demaine said that as it was holiday week there was no work in Barlick and he had nothing to draw and an order for 7/- a week against him by the court. They stoned the keepers while one of them, an old man, got away.
ENGLAND. SIDNEY T.
CH. 29/07/1932. Report that Daniel Demaine a weaver from Barnoldswick was charged with night poaching on the Gledstone Estate at West Marton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months gaol with hard labour. Sidney T England, head gamekeeper for Sir Amos Nelson Ltd and his brother, Edwin England were on duty near Pykely Fields Farm tenanted by John Lawson. Demaine said that as it was holiday week there was no work in Barlick and he had nothing to draw and an order for 7/- a week against him by the court. They stoned the keepers while one of them, an old man, got away.
LAWSON. JOHN
CH. 29/07/1932. Report that Daniel Demaine a weaver from Barnoldswick was charged with night poaching on the Gledstone Estate at West Marton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months gaol with hard labour. Sidney T England, head gamekeeper for Sir Amos Nelson Ltd and his brother, Edwin England were on duty near Pykely Fields Farm tenanted by John Lawson. Demaine said that as it was holiday week there was no work in Barlick and he had nothing to draw and an order for 7/- a week against him by the court. They stoned the keepers while one of them, an old man, got away.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. EARBY
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
WEAVERS. STRIKE
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
SHUTTLEWORTH. CHARLES LTD
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
VICTORIA MILL
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
HARTLEY JOHN
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
EARBY MANUFACTURING COMPANY
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
HARTLEY. B AND W. BROOK SHED
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
BROOK SHED
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
BIRLEY. A J
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
BAILEY. CW
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
SOUGH BRIDGE MILL
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
DOTCLIFFE MILL
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
NUTTERS (KELBROOK) LTD
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
KELBROOK MANUFACTURING COMPANY. SOUGH
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
SPRING BANK MANUFACTURING CO
CH. 29/07/1932. Report of a mass meeting held by the Colne and District Weavers Association at the Empire Cinema in Earby on Sunday 24th July at which it was agreed to call a general strike of weavers in Earby against the wage cuts being imposed by the manufacturers. This all started when Charles Shuttleworth Ltd at Victoria Mill introduced the 7 ½ % cut and filled their looms up with non-union weavers. John Hartley, manager of the Earby Manufacturing Company of Victoria Mill called a meeting of weavers on Saturday and imposed a similar cut. As the workers protested it was decided to stop the engine and close the entire mill. BB and W Hartley of Brook Shed announced that they were going over to the six loom system but this has not yet been put into effect as the looms have not been altered. AJ Birley at Victoria and Albion Mills, J S Watson at Albion and C W Bailey at Spring Mill all had to follow suit as the weavers stayed out. The only firms still running are Nutters (Kelbrook) Ltd at Sough Bridge, Kelbrook Manufacturing at Sough Bridge and Spring Bank Manufacturing at Dotcliffe.
SCHOOL. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 29/07/1932. In a report of a celebration at the church it was stated that the first Cof E school in Barnoldswick was in a private house owned by William Armistead. It had accommodation for 30 boys and 12 girls. There was one other school in Barlick at the time attached to the Baptist Church. It catered for 20 children.
ARMISTEAD. WILLIAM
CH. 29/07/1932. In a report of a celebration at the church it was stated that the first Cof E school in Barnoldswick was in a private house owned by William Armistead. It had accommodation for 30 boys and 12 girls. There was one other school in Barlick at the time attached to the Baptist Church. It catered for 20 children.
SCHOOL. BAPTIST CHURCH
CH. 29/07/1932. In a report of a celebration at the church it was stated that the first Cof E school in Barnoldswick was in a private house owned by William Armistead. It had accommodation for 30 boys and 12 girls. There was one other school in Barlick at the time attached to the Baptist Church. It catered for 20 children.
WESLEYANS IN EARBY
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
SCHOOL. WESLYAN IN EARBY
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
GREENWOOD. PARKER AND SON
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
TURNER. WILLIAM
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
WILKINSON. RICHARD AND FAMILY
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
BRACEWELLS IN EARBY
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
LINDLEY. JAMES
CH. 12/08/1932. In an article on the diamond Jubilee of the Wesleyan Sunday School in Earby it was stated that there was a well-established group of Wesleyans in Earby in 1805 with 20 members. Their first meeting place was in a room at the foot of Stoneybank and in 1821 they built a small chapel higher up the road at Stoopes Hill. The first superintendents of the Wesleyan Schools were Parker Greenwood and teachers were William Turner, Richard Wilkinson, George Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson (Mary O’Gabriels). A later superintendent was Parker Greenwood’s son Robert and following him, his son Parker Greenwood. The new chapel was erected in 1861 and the old one used as a Sunday School until 1872 when, with the passing of the 1870 Education Act, a new Wesleyan school was built in Earby. In 1871 Mrs Christopher Bracewell laid the foundation stone, the first schoolmaster was Samuel Leach and his wife was schoolmistress and Ann Brunskill the infant mistress. By 1874 there were 160 day scholars and 40 at night school. James Lindley became headmaster in 1885 when the town was in low water following the failure of the Bracewell interests.
OUZELDALE FOUNDRY.
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
CLOUGH MILL FLOOD
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
CALF HALL SHED FLOOD
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
PETERSON’S, MANUFACTURERS AT CLOUGH
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
LEEPER. R. CLOUGH MILL
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
WESTFIELD SHED
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
CROW NEST SHED
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
MOSS SHED FLOOD
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
FLOOD. MONDAY 11TH JULY 1932
CH. 15/07/1932. In an article about the Barnoldswick flood of Monday July 11th 1932. It is related that the foundry at Ouzeldale Mill was hit by lightning and then the flood coming down off the Weets via Bancroft. J Ashby, owner of the foundry said that four men were working in the foundry when it was destroyed. His wife, in the house next to the mill was rescued by neighbours as he had just come out of hospital. His son Tom was trapped in the building and had to be rescued. The manager at Clough Mill R Leeper and a tackler, Benjamin Whittaker of Cobden Street had a narrow escape. At Calf Hall Shed on of Wild’s lorries ferried people clear. Peterson’s space flooded first but was unoccupied, the dividing wall collapsed into Holden’s and Pickles’s space and the water rushed in. Butts Mill, where the Craven Manufacturing Co was working was flooded and warps and cloth ruined. Westfield and Crow Nest were flooded, the boiler house at Moss flooded and Bankfield shed had water in as well. The mills that escaped were Bancroft and Barnsey. The dam wall washed out at Bancroft but the buildings were untouched. Procter’s furniture and joiners shop in Westgate was washed out as was Isaac Levi’s store, Townson Demaine’s greengrocers and C R Waterworth’s general store both in Walmsgate.
BOOTH BRIDGE BOBBIN MILL
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
HOLGATE. JOSEPH. BOBBIN TURNER, EARBY
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
BOBBIN TURNING
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
HOLGATE. SAMUEL BOBBIN TURNER
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
HIGHGATE FARM
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
BATTY HOUSE FARM
CH. 12/08/1932. The death is reported of Joseph Holgate (78) of Wentcliffe, Stoneybank, Earby. For generations his family made bobbins in the two storey water mill at Booth Bridge Farm, Thornton in Craven. He learned his trade from his father Samuel Holgate. The business ceased about 1912 when it moved to Heysham and several members of the family carried on. The wood for the bobbins was felled by the family and carted from North Ribblesdale using six horse teams. When the firm stopped turning at Booth Bridge, Joseph Holgate stayed in the district farming. He had Highgate Farms and Batty House Farm before helping his daughters in a catering business in Water Street which they had established.
ALDERSLEY. EDWARD
CH. 02/09/1932. Edward Aldersley, farmer and milk retailer of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick, described as being ‘over seventy years of age’, was accused of selling milk as Grade ‘A’ in Colne without the proper markings. The case was dismissed on payment of £ 1-5-6 costs. His son, John Edward Aldersley spoke for his father and said he had applied for a licence and intended to take over the business.
MILK RETAILING
CH. 02/09/1932. Edward Aldersley, farmer and milk retailer of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick, described as being ‘over seventy years of age’, was accused of selling milk as Grade ‘A’ in Colne without the proper markings. The case was dismissed on payment of £ 1-5-6 costs. His son, John Edward Aldersley spoke for his father and said he had applied for a licence and intended to take over the business.
ALDERSLEY. JOHN EDWARD
CH. 02/09/1932. Edward Aldersley, farmer and milk retailer of Coates Hall Farm Barnoldswick, described as being ‘over seventy years of age’, was accused of selling milk as Grade ‘A’ in Colne without the proper markings. The case was dismissed on payment of £ 1-5-6 costs. His son, John Edward Aldersley spoke for his father and said he had applied for a licence and intended to take over the business.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES, BARLICK AND EARBY
CH. 02/09/1932. Report that on Monday 29th August all mills in Barlick but two were stopped during the day and there was a baton charge by police at Barnsey Shed. On Tuesday the mills were shut and there was another incident outside Sough Bridge Mill where protesters were dispersed by the police. Two men were arrested. BUDC and the unions protested against the importation of police from other parts of the West Riding. The wage reduction of 10% which the manufacturers seek to impose triggered off this latest round of strikes. 7,000 workers are out in Skipton, Earby and Barlick. 80% of the mills between Skipton and Preston are stopped.
WEAVERS. STRIKES 1932
CH. 02/09/1932. Report that on Monday 29th August all mills in Barlick but two were stopped during the day and there was a baton charge by police at Barnsey Shed. On Tuesday the mills were shut and there was another incident outside Sough Bridge Mill where protesters were dispersed by the police. Two men were arrested. BUDC and the unions protested against the importation of police from other parts of the West Riding. The wage reduction of 10% which the manufacturers seek to impose triggered off this latest round of strikes. 7,000 workers are out in Skipton, Earby and Barlick. 80% of the mills between Skipton and Preston are stopped.
BARNSEY SHED. STRIKE 1932
CH. 02/09/1932. Report that on Monday 29th August all mills in Barlick but two were stopped during the day and there was a baton charge by police at Barnsey Shed. On Tuesday the mills were shut and there was another incident outside Sough Bridge Mill where protesters were dispersed by the police. Two men were arrested. BUDC and the unions protested against the importation of police from other parts of the West Riding. The wage reduction of 10% which the manufacturers seek to impose triggered off this latest round of strikes. 7,000 workers are out in Skipton, Earby and Barlick. 80% of the mills between Skipton and Preston are stopped.
SOUGH BRIDGE MILL. PICKETING 1932
CH. 02/09/1932. Report that on Monday 29th August all mills in Barlick but two were stopped during the day and there was a baton charge by police at Barnsey Shed. On Tuesday the mills were shut and there was another incident outside Sough Bridge Mill where protesters were dispersed by the police. Two men were arrested. BUDC and the unions protested against the importation of police from other parts of the West Riding. The wage reduction of 10% which the manufacturers seek to impose triggered off this latest round of strikes. 7,000 workers are out in Skipton, Earby and Barlick. 80% of the mills between Skipton and Preston are stopped.
WAGE. WEAVERS. REDUCTIONS 1932
CH. 02/09/1932. Report that on Monday 29th August all mills in Barlick but two were stopped during the day and there was a baton charge by police at Barnsey Shed. On Tuesday the mills were shut and there was another incident outside Sough Bridge Mill where protesters were dispersed by the police. Two men were arrested. BUDC and the unions protested against the importation of police from other parts of the West Riding. The wage reduction of 10% which the manufacturers seek to impose triggered off this latest round of strikes. 7,000 workers are out in Skipton, Earby and Barlick. 80% of the mills between Skipton and Preston are stopped.
WEAVERS. PROTESTS
CH. 09/09/1932. report of a meeting on Jepp Hill on August 15th following which James Rushton, weaver was fined 20/- for causing an obstruction in Church Street. Police stated that there were about 500 people on Jepp Hill but they only arrested Rushton ‘because he was the only one they recognised’. [Rushton was of course a noted communist agitator.]
RUSHTON. JAMES
CH. 09/09/1932. report of a meeting on Jepp Hill on August 15th following which James Rushton, weaver was fined 20/- for causing an obstruction in Church Street. Police stated that there were about 500 people on Jepp Hill but they only arrested Rushton ‘because he was the only one they recognised’. [Rushton was of course a noted communist agitator.]
JEPP HILL
CH. 09/09/1932. report of a meeting on Jepp Hill on August 15th following which James Rushton, weaver was fined 20/- for causing an obstruction in Church Street. Police stated that there were about 500 people on Jepp Hill but they only arrested Rushton ‘because he was the only one they recognised’. [Rushton was of course a noted communist agitator.]
STRIKES
CH. 09/09/1932. report of a meeting on Jepp Hill on August 15th following which James Rushton, weaver was fined 20/- for causing an obstruction in Church Street. Police stated that there were about 500 people on Jepp Hill but they only arrested Rushton ‘because he was the only one they recognised’. [Rushton was of course a noted communist agitator.]
SLATER. JOHN AND SONS
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
WEAVERS. STRIKES
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
SLATER. JOHN AND SONS
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
WEAVERS. SHIFT WORKING. BARNOLDSWICK
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
SHUTTLES. KISSING
CH. 30/09/1932. In a report stating that all the mills in Barlick except five opened for work on Wed. 28th Sept. and the remainder will open on Monday next, it was stated that John Slater and Sons at Clough Mill were going to introduce a two shift system to catch up on orders. This would give employment for 120 more weavers. Pick clocks were to be fitted so that production could be allocated and two sets of shuttles were being provided for each loom so that weavers would not have to kiss another’s shuttle.
LETCLIFFE PARK. TANK
CH 07/10/1932. Picture of the tank at Letcliffe Park being cut up for scrap.
TANK. LETCLIFFE PARK
CH 07/10/1932. Picture of the tank at Letcliffe Park being cut up for scrap.
DOTCLIFFE MILL
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
HOGGARTH. ALBERT
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
HOGGARTH. HERBERT
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
ENGINEERS
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
WILKINSON. JOHN WILLIAM
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
SPRING BANK MANUFACTURING COMPANY
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
SMITH. JEANNIE. KELBROOK
CH. 07/10/1932. Report that Albert Hoggarth (38) 2 James Street Salterforth had been found hanged in the engine house at Dotcliffe Mill Kelbrook. John William Wilkinson, manager of the Spring Bank Manufacturing Co said he found Hoggarth when he arrived at the mill at 06:40 on Tuesday and found the workers locked out. He started the engine and then looked for the engineer, he found him hanging in the turbine hole from a rope connected to a short girder. It was asserted by Jeannie Smith of 24 Dotcliffe Road Kelbrook that Hoggarth had been visiting her mother and it was believed that she wanted to give him up. Hoggarth had been heard to say that if she finished with him he would commit suicide. The body was identified by the deceased’s brother Herbert Hoggarth of 2 Beech Street Barnoldswick. He said that Albert had worked at Kelbrook for three years.
WEAVING. SHIFT WORKING
CH. 14/10/1932. Report that on Monday night, 10th September the first night shift ever in Barnoldswick started at J Slater and Sons at Clough Mill. At 6pm, half an hour after the day workers finished, 120 male weavers went in and took over the looms. They worked until 10pm, had an hour off to go home for a hot meal and then worked through until 5am with a half hour break at 2pm. Thus two 48 hour shifts are working in the mill and are both paid the same wage. The Weavers Association said that conditions were not as they had been represented in the press. No pick clocks had been fitted and the same shuttles were used for both shifts. A representative of Slater and Sons said that pick clocks were under consideration and two sets of shuttles was not practical unless they were both new which would mean an expense of 8/- on each of the firm’s 400 looms. [This means that a shuttle cost 2/- as 4 would be needed for each loom]
SHUTTLES. KISSING
CH. 14/10/1932. Report that on Monday night, 10th September the first night shift ever in Barnoldswick started at J Slater and Sons at Clough Mill. At 6pm, half an hour after the day workers finished, 120 male weavers went in and took over the looms. They worked until 10pm, had an hour off to go home for a hot meal and then worked through until 5am with a half hour break at 2pm. Thus two 48 hour shifts are working in the mill and are both paid the same wage. The Weavers Association said that conditions were not as they had been represented in the press. No pick clocks had been fitted and the same shuttles were used for both shifts. A representative of Slater and Sons said that pick clocks were under consideration and two sets of shuttles was not practical unless they were both new which would mean an expense of 8/- on each of the firm’s 400 looms. [This means that a shuttle cost 2/- as 4 would be needed for each loom]
CLOUGH MILL
CH. 14/10/1932. Report that on Monday night, 10th September the first night shift ever in Barnoldswick started at J Slater and Sons at Clough Mill. At 6pm, half an hour after the day workers finished, 120 male weavers went in and took over the looms. They worked until 10pm, had an hour off to go home for a hot meal and then worked through until 5am with a half hour break at 2pm. Thus two 48 hour shifts are working in the mill and are both paid the same wage. The Weavers Association said that conditions were not as they had been represented in the press. No pick clocks had been fitted and the same shuttles were used for both shifts. A representative of Slater and Sons said that pick clocks were under consideration and two sets of shuttles was not practical unless they were both new which would mean an expense of 8/- on each of the firm’s 400 looms. [This means that a shuttle cost 2/- as 4 would be needed for each loom]
SLATER. J AND SONS
CH. 14/10/1932. Report that on Monday night, 10th September the first night shift ever in Barnoldswick started at J Slater and Sons at Clough Mill. At 6pm, half an hour after the day workers finished, 120 male weavers went in and took over the looms. They worked until 10pm, had an hour off to go home for a hot meal and then worked through until 5am with a half hour break at 2pm. Thus two 48 hour shifts are working in the mill and are both paid the same wage. The Weavers Association said that conditions were not as they had been represented in the press. No pick clocks had been fitted and the same shuttles were used for both shifts. A representative of Slater and Sons said that pick clocks were under consideration and two sets of shuttles was not practical unless they were both new which would mean an expense of 8/- on each of the firm’s 400 looms. [This means that a shuttle cost 2/- as 4 would be needed for each loom]
WAGES. SHIFT WORKING
CH. 14/10/1932. Report that on Monday night, 10th September the first night shift ever in Barnoldswick started at J Slater and Sons at Clough Mill. At 6pm, half an hour after the day workers finished, 120 male weavers went in and took over the looms. They worked until 10pm, had an hour off to go home for a hot meal and then worked through until 5am with a half hour break at 2pm. Thus two 48 hour shifts are working in the mill and are both paid the same wage. The Weavers Association said that conditions were not as they had been represented in the press. No pick clocks had been fitted and the same shuttles were used for both shifts. A representative of Slater and Sons said that pick clocks were under consideration and two sets of shuttles was not practical unless they were both new which would mean an expense of 8/- on each of the firm’s 400 looms. [This means that a shuttle cost 2/- as 4 would be needed for each loom]
SHUTTLES. KISSING.
The objections to using the same shuttles as another weaver as evinced in 1932 when Clough Mill went on two shifts is an interesting sidelight on the problems of changing over. I have heard people say that when they were learning weaving they hated kissing their mentor’s shuttle especially if they chewed tobacco. Slaters tried to address this by providing disinfectant in the office for weavers who wanted it but the weavers association said that this was not the answer as weavers wouldn’t break off work to go and get it. Pick clocks would have solved the wage allocation problem but Slaters never fitted them (See John Metcalfe evidence) and one wonders how they got round this problem. [SCG. Note]
WEAVERS. SHIFT WORKING
The objections to using the same shuttles as another weaver as evinced in 1932 when Clough Mill went on two shifts is an interesting sidelight on the problems of changing over. I have heard people say that when they were learning weaving they hated kissing their mentor’s shuttle especially if they chewed tobacco. Slaters tried to address this by providing disinfectant in the office for weavers who wanted it but the weavers association said that this was not the answer as weavers wouldn’t break off work to go and get it. Pick clocks would have solved the wage allocation problem but Slaters never fitted them (See John Metcalfe evidence) and one wonders how they got round this problem. [SCG. Note]
HARTLEY. T W
CH. 04/11/1932. Report of the death of T W Hartley (77) of Springfield Earby. He was born in Carleton and moved to Barlick at an early age. He was one of the founders of Brook Shed.
BROOK SHED
CH. 04/11/1932. Report of the death of T W Hartley (77) of Springfield Earby. He was born in Carleton and moved to Barlick at an early age. He was one of the founders of Brook Shed.
BROUGHTON. J TACKLER
CH. 11/11/1932. memoir of J Broughton (69) of Beech Street who has completed 50 years with S Pickles and Sons of Calf Hall Shed. He learned to weave at Clough Mill and started working for S Pickles Senior when he started at Old Coates Mill with 70 looms. He moved to Clough with the same firm and worked at that mill when a fire occurred in the premises of James Nutter. He alerted Slater Edmondson who then lived opposite Clough Mill. Pickles’s moved unto Calf Hall Shed when it opened in 1889 and he had been there ever since. He said that Old Coates Mill was out in the country and there was a plantation at the junction of Park Road and Rainhall Road.
PICKLES S AND SONS
CH. 11/11/1932. memoir of J Broughton (69) of Beech Street who has completed 50 years with S Pickles and Sons of Calf Hall Shed. He learned to weave at Clough Mill and started working for S Pickles Senior when he started at Old Coates Mill with 70 looms. He moved to Clough with the same firm and worked at that mill when a fire occurred in the premises of James Nutter. He alerted Slater Edmondson who then lived opposite Clough Mill. Pickles’s moved unto Calf Hall Shed when it opened in 1889 and he had been there ever since. He said that Old Coates Mill was out in the country and there was a plantation at the junction of Park Road and Rainhall Road.
COATES MILL. OLD
CH. 11/11/1932. memoir of J Broughton (69) of Beech Street who has completed 50 years with S Pickles and Sons of Calf Hall Shed. He learned to weave at Clough Mill and started working for S Pickles Senior when he started at Old Coates Mill with 70 looms. He moved to Clough with the same firm and worked at that mill when a fire occurred in the premises of James Nutter. He alerted Slater Edmondson who then lived opposite Clough Mill. Pickles’s moved unto Calf Hall Shed when it opened in 1889 and he had been there ever since. He said that Old Coates Mill was out in the country and there was a plantation at the junction of Park Road and Rainhall Road.
NUTTER JAMES FIRE AT CLOUGH
CH. 11/11/1932. memoir of J Broughton (69) of Beech Street who has completed 50 years with S Pickles and Sons of Calf Hall Shed. He learned to weave at Clough Mill and started working for S Pickles Senior when he started at Old Coates Mill with 70 looms. He moved to Clough with the same firm and worked at that mill when a fire occurred in the premises of James Nutter. He alerted Slater Edmondson who then lived opposite Clough Mill. Pickles’s moved unto Calf Hall Shed when it opened in 1889 and he had been there ever since. He said that Old Coates Mill was out in the country and there was a plantation at the junction of Park Road and Rainhall Road.
PARK ROAD
CH. 11/11/1932. memoir of J Broughton (69) of Beech Street who has completed 50 years with S Pickles and Sons of Calf Hall Shed. He learned to weave at Clough Mill and started working for S Pickles Senior when he started at Old Coates Mill with 70 looms. He moved to Clough with the same firm and worked at that mill when a fire occurred in the premises of James Nutter. He alerted Slater Edmondson who then lived opposite Clough Mill. Pickles’s moved unto Calf Hall Shed when it opened in 1889 and he had been there ever since. He said that Old Coates Mill was out in the country and there was a plantation at the junction of Park Road and Rainhall Road.
SLATER J AND SONS
CH. 18/11/1932. report of a wages dispute at J Slater and Sons sheds at Clough and Wellhouse mills. The weavers association said that they were underpaid 10/- a week and the employers disputed this figure. There is to be a strike ballot. The dispute has nothing to do with shift working at Clough. The union do not agree with this but are not advising their members to take any action.
WEAVERS. WAGE DISPUTE
CH. 18/11/1932. report of a wages dispute at J Slater and Sons sheds at Clough and Wellhouse mills. The weavers association said that they were underpaid 10/- a week and the employers disputed this figure. There is to be a strike ballot. The dispute has nothing to do with shift working at Clough. The union do not agree with this but are not advising their members to take any action.
WAGES. WEAVERS
CH. 18/11/1932. report of a wages dispute at J Slater and Sons sheds at Clough and Wellhouse mills. The weavers association said that they were underpaid 10/- a week and the employers disputed this figure. There is to be a strike ballot. The dispute has nothing to do with shift working at Clough. The union do not agree with this but are not advising their members to take any action.
CLOUGH MILL
CH. 18/11/1932. report of a wages dispute at J Slater and Sons sheds at Clough and Wellhouse mills. The weavers association said that they were underpaid 10/- a week and the employers disputed this figure. There is to be a strike ballot. The dispute has nothing to do with shift working at Clough. The union do not agree with this but are not advising their members to take any action.
WELLHOUSE MILL
CH. 18/11/1932. report of a wages dispute at J Slater and Sons sheds at Clough and Wellhouse mills. The weavers association said that they were underpaid 10/- a week and the employers disputed this figure. There is to be a strike ballot. The dispute has nothing to do with shift working at Clough. The union do not agree with this but are not advising their members to take any action.
WINDLE. WILLIAM
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
WINDLE. THOMAS
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
BRACEWELL. CHRISTOPHER. GREEN END
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
MILL. GREEN END (THE OLD SHED)
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
BUTTS MILL
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
CLOUGH SHED
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
WATSON. FRANCIS
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
PLUG DRAWERS IN EARBY
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. PLUG DRAWERS
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
LOOMS. POWER. FIRST IN EARBY
CH. 30/12/1932. William Windle was born in Earby on January 3, 1825. His father was Thomas Windle. In his early years William was a hand loom weaver and he was one of the first power loom weavers to work at ‘The Old Shed’ which was the weaving shed Christopher Bracewell built at Green End in Earby. The shed was a long narrow building containing 140 looms and was later enlarged to 260. It was visited by the ‘Plug drawers’ [during the summer of 1842]. When Christopher Bracewell’s oldest son built Butts Mill in Barlick, William went to work there and was one of the first tacklers in the town. In 1859 he married Margaret Broughton. William became a taper at Butts and worked there for many years. In his later years he had 16 looms in Clough Shed on commission weaving. Francis Watson had 16 looms on the same terms and William tackled for both of them.
WINDLE. SALLY
Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building called the bakehouse. Sally Windle baked ‘a score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a block of houses off Stoneybank Road which is now (1932) the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room. They used water from the beck for domestic purposes but brought drinking water from a spring on Stoneybank opposite the cottages. Waste water was poured away in the street. (from Craven Herald. 30/12/1932)
GREEN END COTTAGES
Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building called the bakehouse. Sally Windle baked ‘a score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a block of houses off Stoneybank Road which is now (1932) the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room. They used water from the beck for domestic purposes but brought drinking water from a spring on Stoneybank opposite the cottages. Waste water was poured away in the street. (from Craven Herald. 30/12/1932)
BAKEHOUSES. EARBY
Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building called the bakehouse. Sally Windle baked ‘a score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a block of houses off Stoneybank Road which is now (1932) the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room. They used water from the beck for domestic purposes but brought drinking water from a spring on Stoneybank opposite the cottages. Waste water was poured away in the street. (from Craven Herald. 30/12/1932)
CLUB. CLARENCE. EARBY
Sally Windle used to live in Green End Cottages, the second from the top. At the end of the cottages was a long narrow building called the bakehouse. Sally Windle baked ‘a score’ of oatmeal at a time into oatcakes. Later she and her husband moved to a block of houses off Stoneybank Road which is now (1932) the Clarence Club. She had a bakestone in the living room. They used water from the beck for domestic purposes but brought drinking water from a spring on Stoneybank opposite the cottages. Waste water was poured away in the street. (from Craven Herald. 30/12/1932)
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