Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
Helmshore Mills are two mills built on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was built in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker Mill was built later by the then owner ??? Whitaker. In its early life it alternated between working wool and cotton. By 1920 it was working shoddy as a Condensor mule mill and that equipment has been preserved and is still used. Though closed in 1967 it was taken over by the Higher Mills Trust, whose trustees included Chris Aspin, the historian and author and Dr Rhodes Boyson who maintained it as a museum. It is open for visitors and does carding and mule spinning demonstrations.
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