Stories from Lancashire Museums

Tag: Lancashire textiles

  • Lancashire film and photography

    Lancashire County Council Museum Service collects a range of material related to our rich Lancashire heritage which is complemented by the extensive collections held at the Lancashire Archives, and the digital collections hosted by RedRoseCollections and the North West Film Archive. For World Photo Day, we thought that we’d showcase some of these collections and…

  • Lancashire Women in Engineering

    We will be celebrating International Women in Engineering Day on 23rd June 2021. In the words of the Women’s Engineering Society: This year we’ll be celebrating the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing, and not just to respond to the pandemic but also to support lives and livelihoods every day. Women…

  • Roller Printing

    Roller Printing

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. Following on from the series about Lancashire…

  • The Lancashire boilers at Queen Street Mill

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. This week marks the 119th birthday of…

  • Queen Street Mill steam engine

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. Peace is a 500hp tandem compound engine,…

  • The Power Loom

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. The Lancashire Loom, as seen at Queen…

  • Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. Samuel Crompton (1753-1827) from Bolton took the basic…

  • Richard Arkwright and the Water Frame

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) from Preston invented the water frame and…

  • James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. The Spinning Jenny was invented around 1764…

  • John Kay and the flying shuttle

    This post is part of a series of articles based on the collections of the Lancashire Textile Industry in the Lancashire County Council Museum Service. The Helmshore Mills Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum are home to a variety of objects related to the textile industry. John Kay (1704-1779) is best remembered for…

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