Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
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Helmshore Mills are two mills built on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was built in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was built in the 1820s by the Turner family.[1][2] In their early life they alternated between working wool and cotton. By 1920 they were working shoddy as condensor mule mills; and equipment has been preserved and is still used. The mills closed in 1967 and they were taken over by the Higher Mills Trust, whose trustees included historian and author Chris Aspin and politician Dr Rhodes Boyson, who maintained it as a museum. The mills are said to the most original and best-preserved examples of both cotton spinning and woollen fulling left in the country that are still operational.
Location in Rossendale | |
Alternative names | Higher Mill, Whitakerś Mill |
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Architectural style | Stone built 3 storey |
Structural system | Stone |
Location | Helmshore, Rossendale, Lancashire, England |
Owner | William Turner |
Further ownership |
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Current owners | Lancashire Museums |
Coordinates | 53.6890°N 2.3362°W / 53.6890; -2.3362 |
Construction | |
Built | 1789 |
Floor count | 3 |
Water Power | |
Wheels | 2 Pitch back |
Equipment | |
Cotton count | 20 |
Mule Frames | 4 per floor, Taylor Lang, Stalybridge |
Doublers | 1 |
Following the withdrawal of its grant from Lancashire County Council, the museum closed to the public on 30 September 2016 for an indefinite period. However, the museum remained open for pre-booked school visits.[3] In April 2018 the council announced that the museums would reopen to the general public for three days a week between April and November.[4]