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Durn Mill Steam Engine

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Firgrove Mill Steam Engine

Firgrove Mill Steam Engine

1907

Brush for cleaning textile mill machinery

Brush for cleaning textile mill machinery

1880-1940

Gas-filled vacuum recloser type GVR serial no. GVRB 13000997

Gas-filled vacuum recloser type GVR serial no. GVRB 13000997

1997

Carter's Improved High Speed Type Bench Braiding Machine.

Carter's Improved High Speed Type Bench Braiding Machine.

Woodcutting Machine

Woodcutting Machine

Spectacles

Spectacles

1925-1935

Watson electric slotter

Watson electric slotter

1900

Part of smallware warping machine. Has 4 rollers in central section

Part of smallware warping machine. Has 4 rollers in central section

1900-1950

Textile machine parts

Textile machine parts

1900-1950

Flour calculating slide rule, c 1910.

Flour calculating slide rule, c 1910.

circa 1910

Daily Herald Photograph: Adjusting cotton reels on spinning machine

Daily Herald Photograph: Adjusting cotton reels on spinning machine

1947

Model (scale 1:8) of a wool washing machine made by John & William McNaught

Model (scale 1:8) of a wool washing machine made by John & William McNaught

W.Tatham Ltd nameplate

W.Tatham Ltd nameplate

1935

Tri-Flier/Hiway Demon 175 G-MJXE microlight aircraft

Tri-Flier/Hiway Demon 175 G-MJXE microlight aircraft

1985

Daily Herald photograph by Spencer showing dancers at the Carlton Ballroom, Rochdale.

Dancers at the Carlton Ballroom, Rochdale

1961-05-03

Cross Ball Warping Machine in two parts. Manufactured by Thomas Holt, early to mid 20th century. Used at Foxsons Mill, Dewsbury.

Cross ball warping machine

1900-1950

Two samples of beltings:- 1 strip, 8" x 3", with red edges (RB.75, foldless type); 1 strip, 8"x5", black (RB.71, folded type)

Two Samples of Beltings.

1935

Bobbin winder for winding off ring tubes onto double ended bobbins, shortened to 22 bobbins each side. Manufactured by Thomas Holt Ltd. Used by Courtaulds Lts, at Foxsons Mill, Dewsbury. Late 19th - early 20th century.

Bobbin Winder

1880-1920

Lancashire beamer for winding bobbins on a 'V' creel onto beams ready for sizing or the loom. Manufactured by Thomas Holt Ltd, Rochdale. early to mid 20th century. Used at Courtaulds Ltd, from Foxsons Mill, Dewsbury.

Lancashire Beamer

1900-1950

Nut deskinner by William Brierley, Collier & Hartley Ltd, Rochdale, England, 1920-1939; used by the Company Burton, Son and Sanders, Ipswich, specialist manufacturers of intermediate ingredients for the bakery trade, 1920-1992

Nut Deskinner by William Brierley

1920-1939

Flaking mill, made by Thomas Robinsons & Sons of Rochdale, c.1960.

Robinsons Flaking Mill for producing Kellogg's Cornflakes and other cereal products

c.1960

Transversing section of smallware warping machine and box of parts. Made by William Hurst and Co, Rochdale, early to mid 20th century.

Transversing section of warping machine

1900-1950

Textile machine parts in two Really Useful Boxes, one metal box and on pallet. One box of metal needles in Really Useful box. One box of metal cylinders and parts in Really Useful box. One metal box of metal parts most likely from the Lancashire beamer. Loose metal parts on pallet most likely associated with the Lancashire Beamer and the Cross Ball warping machine. Thomas Holt measuring dial most likely from Cross ball warping machine. Early to mid 20th century.

Textile machine parts in two Really Useful Boxes

1900-1950

Watch movement.

Watch movement

1760

One photograph showing a woman adjusting cotton fibre on a machine. Caption on the back reads: ‘Arrow Mill, Rochdale. Here is demonstrated the spinning of “Fibre” on standard spinning machinery.’

Daily Herald Photograph: Adjusting cotton fibre on spinning machine

1930-1950

Model (scale 1:4) of wool drying machine by John & William McNaught, Rochdale, Manchester, England, the original having been made around 1914.

Model (scale 1:4) of wool drying machine by John & William McNaught

1914

A letter from James Chadwick to the London and North Western railway company secretary about the insane competition the LNWR has with the Great Northern Railway which the author thought was over. However he has since seen an advertisement in the Times and on leaflets being distributed on a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway that suggest the contrary, 25th February 1856.

Insane competition

1856-02-25