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128-536: Bradford Industrial Museum , established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill , Bradford , United Kingdom , specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery , kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public. There is a Horse Emporium in the old canteen block plus a shop in the mill , and entry is free of charge. Moorside Mills was a textile factory built by John Moore in 1875 for worsted spinning which grew into

256-574: A commuter town along with neighbouring Shipley. In the 1960s, the Hall Cliffe manor house was demolished and replaced with the Ian Clough Hall, named after a local mountaineer . In the latter years of the 20th century, the West Riding suffered from economic decline through the gradual closure of its textile and engineering industries. Bradford was particularly affected by this; however, Leeds grew as

384-576: A fitness centre . The school on Fagley Lane was built in 1845. The school in Chapel Street (1875) was declared unsuitable in 1884 and to replace it the Central Board School was built on Victoria Road in 1887 on the site of the old Eccleshill Hall. In 1889 the Central Board School was renamed Hutton School after the chairman of the School Board. After a period as a fitness centre the building

512-428: A platen in a printing press . The display includes various kinds of printing presses, including a Wharfedale stop cylinder press . In the 19th century, Bradford was famous for its worsted cloth, although life was hard for the workers. The displays show how a fleece was transformed through various stages into a suit. Preparing is the process used in place of carding for long wools and hairs which would break on

640-556: A School Board in the land, following Edward Forsters Education Act of 1871. The School Board built three schools; Greengates, Wellington and the Central Board School; later named Hutton School after John Hutton who was Chair of the School Board for over 25 years and who bought and donated the land for and contributed to the building of the Central Board School. Both Hutton School and Wellington Schools were demolished to make way for new housing developments. The Greengates school building only remains - as of 2022 it remained unlisted. The area

768-544: A balloon to the ring traveller . This enables the twist to be imparted between the spindle top and roller nip, thus helping to produce a smoother yarn. The era of Industrial Revolution weaving machinery gave rise to technological jargon in places such as Yorkshire with a strong local dialect . The resultant inscrutability of linguistic terms has given rise to such jokes as the one from Monty Python 's Trouble at Mill sketch: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle. This nonsense may have been written so on

896-424: A can placed directly underneath. The Lister comb is used when the best results were wanted from long fibred wools and hairs such as mohair, alpaca, long English and crossbred wools. The slivers of wool or hair are fed into the machine, through rollers, and onto the pins of the fallers which disentangle and transport the fibres to the nip jaw. The nip jaw, with its swinging motion, pulls the fringe of fibres out from

1024-637: A clock tower as a war memorial to those who had died in the First World War . Ownership of the mill changed hands many times and in 1970 the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council bought the property from Messrs. W. & J. Whitehead to create the Bradford Industrial Museum . In 1837, the Manor Pottery was established by Jeremiah Rawson, lord of the manor on a site east of

1152-631: A green field site near Buck Lane, at a cost of £25 million but there is opposition to the move. Another industrial area is the Tong Park Industrial Estate off Otley Road in eastern Baildon. One of the main monuments in Baildon is the Frances Ferrand memorial fountain, known locally as the 'potted meat stick'. This was built by Baron Amphlett of Somerset as a memorial to his mother-in-law, Frances Ferrand. It still stands today to

1280-410: A joke in itself, but the explanation of the above phrase and its humour is tightly connected with the mechanism of the weaving machinery described below. The hand loom with the witch is typical of many that were used in the mills by cloth designers to develop new fabric designs and patterns. They are still used in the textile departments of universities and colleges for training students in weaving and

1408-509: A major administrative and financial centre and Baildon with its railway links to Leeds has become a strategic commuter town. Baildon was an important location for the British Gypsy community. A report of 1929 stated that annual Gypsy Parties had started two to three hundred years before – records were said to go back to 1770 when it was reported to be an ancient custom. In 1881, up to 5,000 people are said to have paid for admission. Gradually

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1536-455: A medium-sized factory employing around 100 people. The mill which was originally steam powered was converted to electricity in the early 20th century. It was bought by Clifford and Arnold Wilson in 1908 who installed a mill engine built by Cole, Marchent and Morley in 1910. The high demand for worsted used for military uniforms during the World War I saw numerous expansions to the factory including

1664-526: A part of Rombalds Moor , with several quarries and underlying strata of coal. There are the remains of old coal pits. Across Baildon Moor is the village of Menston, the town of Ilkley and Ilkley Moor. Baildon is situated on a hill to the north of the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . Baildon is 9 miles (14 km) from Leeds city centre and 3 miles (5 km) from Bradford city centre. Baildon

1792-454: A process known as finishing. This process takes place in a series of gill boxes in which the fibres are redistributed, the slivers made uniform in thickness and moisture added in order to give the wool its natural suppleness and condition. Blending is done where necessary to keep the top up to a given standard of quality and, if dyed, consistency of colour. The top ball produced is suitable for packing for transport and unwinding. The top represents

1920-470: A public house and a private house on Stony Lane, private houses on Stone Hall Road and Back Stone Hall Road, listed farmhouses and former farmhouses on Fagley Lane and Fagley Road, listed three-storey former weavers' houses (1851–54) on Moorwell Place, and a listed former Wesleyan chapel (1775) on Lands Lane. and the Manor House off Leeds Road. In the south of Eccleshill off Moorside Road close to Fagley

2048-399: A small Tesco on the outskirts. The centre is home to many independent shops including Pickles Delicatessen, Westgate General Stores, Seasons Home, Finesse Gifts and Baildon Interiors. There are also several independently owned hair dressers and beauty salons and a variety of restaurants and take-aways. There are some eight public houses and bars in Baildon. Charlestown in south east Baildon

2176-470: A small triangular area of land at the road junction that was the site of the village stocks . North of Stony Lane is the former Stoney Lane Quarry now a recreation ground known as The Delph, a grassed area with a fenced children's play ground and triangulation pillar . South of Stony Lane is a grassed recreation ground or common with Village Green Status. Cricket and football were played here but more suitable grounds became available. Eccleshill War Memorial

2304-441: A stable there is a blacksmith's workshop and farriery display, complete with many horseshoes , anvils , and metalworking tools. This building was a 1918 motor car garage. The museum kept dray horses in the stables until 2011. At one end it contains restored horse-drawn vehicles . There is a reproduction of an 1890 garden seat omnibus , with wooden, slatted seats on top, like garden seats. These vehicles have not been used in

2432-411: A type of cloth , a type of loom or part of an early form of weaving loom taking its name from a corruption of the words 'draw boy' - a weaving assistant. In around 1816 Union Mill on Harrogate Road was constructed for the manufacture of woollens. From 1892 to 1983 John Pilley and Sons owned and operated the mills A further three storey mill building known as Pilley's Mill was added to the south of

2560-543: A uniflow steam engine rescued from Linton mill and known as the Linton engine, was one of the last Bradford-made steam engines . There is a display explaining the history of steam power . Most of the space is taken up with several examples of cars and light commercial vans built by the Jowett company of Bradford, Scott motor bikes and Baines bicycles. A Wallis & Steevens Advance type Steam Roller no. 7986 built in 1928 that

2688-422: A variety of different forms. Hattersley also invented, in 1868, the skip box: a development of the circular or revolving box. This allowed the shuttle box to bypass or skip the next compartment along and pick out the shuttle of the following one. The Dobcross H.K. box loom was manufactured in ca.1950 by Hutchinson, Hollingworth & Co. Ltd of Dobcross , Oldham . This loom was claimed by its makers to be one of

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2816-415: A variety of fabrics. Because foot pedals, or treadles , operate the loom it is still classed as a handloom, but it is much easier and faster to weave as all the motions of the loom are connected via crankshaft and gear wheels. Because the loom is designed to use only one shuttle when weaving , giving a solid colour in the weft , it is termed a plain loom. The cast metal chair, manufactured along with

2944-594: Is Shipley Glen Tramway , a narrow-gauge funicular railway. The railway takes passengers between the valley floor near Titus Salt School to the bottom of Prod Lane, a short walking distance from Shipley Glen. The Church of St. James in Charlestown is a painted tongue and groove timber building, now a grade II listed building. It was moved to Baildon from Great Warley , Essex in 1905. The Reverend N. R. Bailey, rector of Great Warley, had property in Baildon and hoped to retire there. However his obituary

3072-458: Is a former Wesleyan Sunday School of 1885, now residential accommodation. Eccleshill was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Bradford , in 1866 Eccleshill became a separate civil parish . From 1894 to 1899 Eccleshill was an urban district . In 1951 the parish had a population of 18,480. As of 2004, Eccleshill ward includes the south-east quadrant of Greengates , Thorpe Edge housing estate, part of Five Lane Ends, Bank Top,

3200-594: Is also a driving test centre on Victoria Road. Eccleshill Police Station is not in Eccleshill ward but just outside in Idle . Eccleshill has a number of public houses particularly along Victoria Road and Norman Lane, however several public houses along Harrogate Road have closed in recent years. Eccleshill's listed buildings include private houses on Moorside Road, the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church,

3328-489: Is an amateur orchestra which was formed in the mid-1940s and still meets on a weekly basis throughout the year. website baildonorchestra.weebly.com The late journalist and Countdown TV game show presenter Richard Whiteley was a native of Baildon, and Austin Mitchell , Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from 1977 until 2015, was born in Baildon. The former wool merchant and RAF Officer Geoffrey Ambler

3456-463: Is an area, former village, and ward within the Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire , England. The ward population of Eccleshill is 17,540, increasing at the 2011 Census to 17,945. Eccleshill is a more or less completely residential urban area with very little open space although there is substantial open land directly to the east. The origins of the name Eccleshill are uncertain. At

3584-408: Is dispute as to which town the school actually is in, some classing it as Baildon and some as Saltaire . Within Baildon there are sports clubs for cricket, football, golf, rugby and running. Sconce camp site, near to Baildon, is operated by Aire Valley scout district. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from

3712-400: Is falling into disuse because of the low speed at which the spindles have to run. On the flyer spinner as the yarn leaves the front rollers it is guided through a porcelain ring to the top of a revolving spindle, around and down one of the arms of the flyer and onto the bobbin. The bobbin is carried on a lifter plate and moves up and down the spindle. As the flyer revolves, imparting twist to

3840-534: Is fitted with a 360 hook de Vogue jacquard and can weave very complex fabrics. The plain Hattersley Domestic Loom was specially developed for cottage or home use and designed to replace the wooden handloom; the Domestic is similar in construction to a power loom . It was introduced ca.1900 and the makers claimed that a speed of 160 picks per minute could be easily attained with from 2 to 8 shafts weaving

3968-400: Is from Castlefields corn mill near Bingley ; it is a bedstone carved from local millstone grit . A spindle passes through this and a similar upper runner stone; the grain enters via the spindle hole and is ground by the scissor-action of the grooves when the runner stone rotates against the bedstone. The grain is forced out at the outer edges as flour, then flows into a sack. The prime exhibit,

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4096-410: Is hand doffed. The museum also has a 24-spindle velox ring spinner which was a later development of the ring spinning frame. The passage of the yarn from the front rollers to the paper tube - used in place of a bobbin - is different from other types of spinning frames. When the yarn leaves the rollers it passes direct to the top of an elongated spindle and coils round it two or three times before forming

4224-754: Is located on Harrogate Road towards Greengates. To the east of Harrogate Road can be found the Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre, and playing fields. East of the playing fields is the Eccleshill Community Hospital, Eccleshill Park—an area of grassland, and the Eccleshill Adventure Playground . Eccleshill has four post offices , one on Harrogate Road, one in Fagley and others in Ravenscliffe and Thorpe Edge. There

4352-426: Is now called slubbing which needs twist for strength, and is dealt with by a second set of boxes: a 2-spindle draw-box, 4-spindle weigh box, 8-spindle finisher/reducer and 8-spindle rover. In these boxes the principle of two sets of rollers with controlled fibre in between is the same, but the yarn is now twisted onto a bobbin via a flyer. The combed slivers produced on any type of combing machine are passed through

4480-407: Is now furnished as for mill workers of the 1870s, 1940s and 1970s. The Horse Emporium was once the mill's canteen block. The displays are arranged on the theme of horse power . Among other exhibits there is a heavy-duty British Railways dray , a decorative chaff cutter and a horse fodder measure. There is a saddler -at-work display, plus horse brasses , horseshoes and other harness . In

4608-611: Is now the Thorpe Edge and Ravenscliffe areas of the Eccleshill ward. This coal was required for steam powered machinery and the pottery. Unfortunately the digging of the coal pits caused many local water wells to run dry. Eccleshill Mechanics' Institute on Stone Hall Road was built in 1868. Charles Bottomley converted the upper floor of the Eccleshill Mechanics' Institute into a 359-seat picture hall which he named Eccleshill Picture House and then opened in 1911. Shortly after this

4736-596: Is on the northern side and to the south of the Recreation Ground on Moorwell Place is a terrace of listed former weavers' houses and a bowling green . There are many historic wells in Eccleshill, e.g. Moor Well, and Tun Well however there is a Holy Well covered by a manhole cover, located in a private garden off Harrogate Road opposite the end of Ravenscliffe Avenue, close to the site of Eccleshill Railway Station . This historic well and its associated grove dates back to Roman times. The Eccleshill (Swimming) Pool

4864-415: Is part of an escape mechanism in case the shuttle becomes trapped. The mill 's first owner, John Moore, lived at Moorside House with his family until 1887, followed by the later owners of Moorside Mills. The house interior is now a museum display, furnished as if the 19th century mill -owners were still living there. Gaythorne Row is a row of Victorian back-to-backs . It was rebuilt here in 1986, and

4992-682: Is served by the First Bradford 640, 641 and 645 Green Line and A2 airport bus services. The main roads through the area are the north–south A658 Harrogate Road, and the A6176 Bolton Road—Pullan Avenue. Apperly Bridge railway is approximately 1.5 miles away. Eccleshill United Football Club are currently members of the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division . Other local sports teams include Eccleshill Badminton Club who use

5120-432: Is the Bradford Industrial Museum in what was Moorside Mills. This museum houses machinery from local textile and printing industries and has a row of workers houses. It used to house the popular Horses at Work exhibition but this has now closed. Originally built in 1854 as a Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church is the only listed church building in Eccleshill. Tucked behind this church

5248-622: Is the area of Baildon with the highest concentration of industry. The area is in the valley bottom between Otley Road and the River Aire, and includes the Acorn Park Industrial Estate and the Butterfield Industrial Estate. Notable companies established in Charlestown include Manor Coating Systems and Denso Marston Radiators. Further north east in Charlestown there are plans for a 'Baildon Business Park' and hotel on

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5376-599: Is the only tramcar left in Bradford, and a Bradford trolleybus . The first horse-drawn trams were introduced in 1882, followed by steam trams in 1883 and electric trams in 1898. Trolleybuses ran in Bradford from 1911 to 1972. There are various models of trams , including no. 237, built in Shipley in 1904, but shown as it was in 1912 with top deck extended and covered to accommodate 38 passengers. From 1904 to 1908 this tram travelled between Baildon bridge and Greengates . After that it

5504-471: Is the process in which two or more single-spun yarns are united to produce a yarn of greater strength for use as warp threads in the weaving process and for normal knitting purposes. This is done by rollers delivering the yarns to a revolving spindle which twists or folds the single yarns around one another. The machines used are similar to spinning frames in their method of applying twist, but differ in that they have only one set of delivery rollers instead of

5632-425: Is the worsted mule. All three types of machine or frame are similar in their method of drawing out or drafting the roving to make the required count or thickness, but differ in the way in which twist is imparted and the yarn wound onto the bobbin . Drafting takes place between the back and front rollers. The front rollers revolve faster than the back ones, drawing out the roving to the fineness of yarn required. Between

5760-655: The Dudley Hill to Killinghall turnpike was constructed. Parts of this are now Killinghall Road and Harrogate Road. In 1889 Mill Lane, Town Lane and Town Street were renamed Victoria Road to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria that year. The tram service came from central Bradford up Bolton Road then Stone Hall Road to a terminus in front of the Eccleshill Mechanics Institute. The tram service also went along Harrogate road to Greengates but because of

5888-578: The Emley Moor TV transmitter and the Idle relay transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Leeds , Heart Yorkshire , Capital Yorkshire , Hits Radio West Yorkshire , and Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire . The town is served by the local newspaper, Telegraph & Argus . For nearly a quarter of a century the August bank holiday weekend saw over 500 Harley-Davidson riders arrive in Baildon as part of

6016-492: The UK since 1931. This reproduction has hydraulic disc brakes for safety. There is a brougham , a 19th-century gentleman's light one-horse carriage. This design is said to have been named after Lord Chancellor Brougham in the early 19th century. There is also a steamer, or Shand Mason steam fire pump of ca.1880. A team of horses pulled it, and steam powered it, at 250 gallons per minute. Firemen could get it ready in 7 minutes. It

6144-487: The West Yorkshire Built-up Area . Other nearby suburbs include Shipley to the south and Saltaire to the west. As of the 2011 census, the Baildon ward has a population of 15,360. Cup-and-ring stones on Baildon Moor have shown evidence of Bronze Age inhabitation. Baildon Moor has a number of gritstone outcrops with numerous prehistoric cup and ring marks . A denuded and mutilated bank represents

6272-429: The bobbin fits. The revolving tube and bobbin impart twist to the yarn until it becomes strong enough to wind onto the bobbin. The speed of the bobbin causes the thread to balloon, and the air resistance to this balloon, combined with friction on the cap edge, is sufficient to give enough tension for winding on at the line of the cap edge as the bobbin moves up and down inside the cap. The 64-spindle cap spinner on display

6400-530: The 1998 Bradford Education reform which returned the area to a two-tier school system. Currently, there are four local primary schools: Sandal Primary School to the North on West Lane, Baildon Church of England School to the east off Langley Lane, Hoyle Court Primary school in Charlestown and Glenaire Primary School to the south on Thompson Lane. The nearest secondary school for the area is Titus Salt School on Higher Coach Road, overlooking Roberts Park, Saltaire . There

6528-404: The 28 shaft negative square dobby is similar in construction to Hattersley's Keighley dobby. However, to allow the shuttle more time to pass through the shed the dobby has special curved slots that allow the shafts to dwell or remain open for longer. In addition, the pattern chain or lags controlling the shafts can be set to control all 28 shafts, or set to operate the first sixteen shafts to weave

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6656-641: The Baildon Ward at District level, but includes the area North of the River Aire along Coach Road and Higher Coach Road (Baildon South West) which is within the Shipley Ward at District level. On Monday 10 June 2013 Baildon officially became a town when Baildon Parish Council resolved that, in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972 s245, the Parish of Baildon shall have the status of a town. Consequently,

6784-453: The City of Leeds and to the south-east Bradford Moor . To the south is the ward of Undercliffe and round to the south-west is Bolton and Ashbourne. To the north-west is Five Lane Ends and to the north and further along is Idle Moor and Wrose . Fagley is an area to the south-east of Eccleshill ward. The local economy includes a sandstone quarry, and a riding school. Most of the shops including

6912-492: The Gateway community centre, Ravenscliffe youth centre and children's centre also, Eccleshill Adventure Playground . At the junction of Stony Lane and Victoria Road by the roadside was the 19th century lock-up and a public urinal, however these have been walled up for some considerable time. The lock-up and urinal are now over-topped by a section of raised stone paved pavement with railings known as 'The Monkey Bridge' overlooking

7040-549: The Hattersley domestic loom) and new methods of working practice, such as the factory system , during the Industrial Revolution . The loom has a four-shuttle drop box to weave up to four colours of weft, and has John Kay's flying shuttle method of inserting the weft. Most of the handlooms used in the home were ordinary shaft looms. These do not require roof space and would be weaving standard cloths, unlike this loom which

7168-471: The Parish Council was renamed Baildon Town Council. Baildon ward is represented on Bradford Council by three Conservative councillors, Valerie Townend, Mike Pollard and Debbie Davies.   indicates seat up for re-election. Baildon has a modest town centre with most everyday amenities including independent traders, estate agents and family law solicitors. There is a Co-op supermarket and

7296-635: The Stoney spelling. See the category People from Eccleshill . Baildon Baildon is a town and civil parish in the Bradford Metropolitan Borough in West Yorkshire , England and within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire . It lies 3 miles (5 km) north of Bradford city centre. The town forms a continuous urban area with Shipley and Bradford, and is part of

7424-635: The Undercliffe Road-Pullan Avenue junction using beds of shale, fireclay and coal at a deep quarry near Bolton Junction at a site now partly occupied by Kents Fitness Gym. There was a rail tunnel under Leeds Road, then known as Pottery Lane, with waggons carrying clay and minerals from the quarry to the pottery on the other side of the road. Manor Pottery produced a salt glazed brown stoneware, household utensils, brown and cream crockery, ornaments, garden vases, busts, and statuettes although these did not bear any distinguishing marks. Although

7552-638: The Wesleyan Methodist Church on Stony Lane worshippers moved to join the Primitive Methodist Chapel built in 1911 on Norman Lane to become Eccleshill Methodist Church. The Eccleshill Methodist Church has now been demolished and there are plans to replace it with apartments . The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was sold in 1965 then became the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church. Construction of St. Lukes church

7680-506: The addition of two extra floors and a clock tower which was erected as a war memorial in 1919. In 1929 the mill was sold to W & J Whitehead, who ran the ring spinning machine which is still in the spinning gallery. In 1970 Bradford Council bought the mill and it opened as a museum on 14 December 1974. Here is machinery from the 19th century Industrial Revolution , including waterwheels , steam engines , oil engines and gas engines ; plus an engineer's workshop display. The millstone

7808-666: The annual UK rally of the Harley-Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain fundraising rally. The HDRCGB ran the rally up to 2001 when it moved to Berkshire. In 2003, Harley-Davidson's Centenary Year, the HDRCGB hosted the event for the last time in Baildon. The rally is now organised by the Shipley Harley-Davidson Club. In 2008 430 riders were given a police escort down Browgate towards Hollins Hill, from where most riders travelled to Harewood House . Baildon Orchestra

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7936-463: The area for some time but only quarrying remains today. Eccleshill has a number of mills. The Old Mill on Victoria Road was a woollen mill built in 1800 but was destroyed by fire in 1816. The present building on the site is dated 1863 although parts of it date back to the early 1800s. On the other side of Victoria Road from the Old Mill is a row of houses and street once known as Dobby Row - a dobby being

8064-399: The cap frame ca.1828 was a step forward in attaining higher production and finer yarn spinning. It is suitable for producing yarns made from botany and fine crossbred quality wools. Unlike the flyer frame where the spindle and flyer rotate, on the cap frame the spindle is stationary and carries a steel cap. Moving up and down the spindle is a lifter plate which carries the spinning tube on which

8192-410: The card and therefore greatly reduce the quality of the worsted yarn produced. The museum displays machinery used for this process. The maker-up or double-screw sheeting preparer is the first machine. This passes the fibre to and from delivery sheets via rollers, and ends with a lap of wool from six to eight feet long. The single screw can preparer is the most important machine of these, as it is here that

8320-476: The cinema was renamed 'Picture Palace' but closed in 1931 never running any ' talkies '. Before construction of the building the institute used to meet in the now demolished school buildings at the western end of Chapel Street on a site now occupied by Eccleshill Victoria Conservative Club. For the last two hundred years the shopping centre for Eccleshill has been Stony Lane and it was here that Henry Sparks, founder of Sparks Bakeries, had his first shop. In 1804

8448-417: The circle pins, with the short ones being left behind. The long fibres or top pass through a revolving funnel to the crimping box and into a can directly underneath. The short fibres or noils are removed from the pins of the large comb circle by lifting knives, and deposited into a can ready for removal. The Holden comb was suited for the combing of short staple wools. The slivers of wool are fed into

8576-402: The cloth and the remaining twelve shafts to produce a name list or selvedge . The word selvedge is derived from self-edge , the edge of the cloth where the weft is turned back as it returns through the shed. The selvedge would often have a brand name or the country of origin woven into it. On the left side of the loom is the patent four-shuttle drop box motion incorporating a foot pedal. This

8704-410: The comb circle by a small comb and removed with the noil in the comb circle pins by brushes and lifting knives. The machines, known as boxes, in the drawing section reduce the combed tops from thick slivers to thinner roving ready for spinning . This is done by drafting them between slow back rollers to faster front rollers, and controlling the fibres between these rollers. The first boxes where

8832-514: The commercial printing sector. There is a forme (text lines produced on a Linotype typesetting machine) made up into the front page of the last edition of the Yorkshire Sports , 2 May 1981. The assembled forme is ready to be moulded and cast into a curved printing plate. There is a display of lead glyphs for typesetting . These would be set into a forme so that the text read backwards and upside down, then inked and pressed against paper using

8960-556: The creation of 589 homes on the former sandstone quarry near Fagley. A Lidl supermarket and Starbucks have been built on an as yet unfinished retail park on the now demolished Union Mills/Pilleys Mill site. Cavendish Primary school, Saint Brendan's primary school, to the west in Swain House is the Hanson Academy . Hutton Middle school was demolished to make way of housing, although the caretakers house still remains. Also demolished

9088-526: The designer is able to explore the application of new design ideas before beginning production trials on a wider loom. Many of the designs for woven fabrics made today were developed and created long ago on similar narrow-width pattern looms. The hand loom with jacquard is a wooden hand loom typical of the many thousands of looms that were used in the domestic cottage industry throughout the British Isles . They were gradually replaced by all-metal looms (see

9216-454: The designing of fabrics. The shafts are lifted by a witch, an early form of dobby , with weights underneath to pull the shafts down, and can work up to 50 shafts to produce very complicated patterns. The weft is put in by hand using the flying shuttle method invented in 1733 by John Kay , and up to four colours can be woven in the weft using Robert Kay's (son of John Kay ) 1760 invention of the multiple shuttle box. On this simple-to-operate loom

9344-483: The eastern side of Browgate. In 1925 the monument was put at threat when plans were produced to replace in with a bus terminus. In the 1960s the monument was removed and dismantled; however, in 1986 the Mechanics Institute raised funds to take it out of storage and restore it. To the north of Towngate roundabout in front of Glendale House is a concrete paved open area created in the 1960s containing what remains of

9472-425: The ends are thickest are the double head can gill box (where the wool ends up in a can) and the 2-spindle gill box (where the wool ends up twisted and on spindles ). On these machines the rollers are heavily fluted to control the sliver, and the front rollers padded with leather to cushion the wool. Between the front and back rollers are fallers or bars which control the roving by holding it with fine pins. The roving

9600-575: The eponymous Eccleshill, Fagley and the Ravenscliffe housing estate. Eccleshill electoral ward is represented on Bradford Council by three Liberal Democrat councillors, Geoff Reid, Nicola Pollard and Brendan Stubbs.   indicates seat up for re-election. Along the south-western end of Victoria Road is the Victoria Industrial Estate including The Old Mill and a variety of commercial and light industrial units. Work has begun on

9728-655: The event was taken over by local residents, who dressed up as Gypsies and formed 'tribes'. Proceeds went to the local horticultural society. After 1897 the tradition died out, apparently because the 'real Gypsies' had disappeared. However, in 1929 it was revived to raise funds for Baildon Hospital. A local resident, John Keen, then contacted the so-called King of the Gypsies , Xavier Petulengro , and they re-established large Gypsy gatherings at Baildon, recorded on Pathe News films and shown nationally in cinemas. The Gypsy Parties ended with

9856-544: The exhibition's centrepieces was a sumptuous robe worn by Sarastro in The Royal Opera House London 's production of Mozart 's The Magic Flute . Mozart became a Freemason in 1784 and several of his works, including The Magic Flute, are believed to have Masonic aspects. 53°48′41″N 1°43′15″W  /  53.8114°N 1.7208°W  / 53.8114; -1.7208  ( Bradford Industrial Museum ) Eccleshill, West Yorkshire Eccleshill

9984-452: The facilities of Hanson School . Rugby team Victoria Rangers A.R.L.F.C. and Victoria Rangers A.F.C. who once used the facilities of Eccleshill Sports and Social Club. until they folded. The Eccleshill Village Fair is held annually in The Delph , a grassed over former Stoney Lane Quarry north of Stony Lane. The spelling of Stoney/Stony Lane is contentious even today although older maps favour

10112-414: The faller pins which are partially combed as they are conveyed to the pins of the large combing circle. As the large circle rotates, the unique feature of the machine, the side circle comb gives the fibres a secondary combing to remove excessively long fibres. The large comb circle carries the remaining fibres to the drawing-off rollers which give the fibres their final combing by removing the long fibres from

10240-555: The first Britons to successfully scale the treacherous north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps . Ex-Yorkshire & England cricket captain Brian Close , born in nearby Rawdon , settled in the village, and died there in 2015 after a long battle with cancer. Ex- Yorkshire and England cricket fast bowler Matthew Hoggard , though originally from Pudsey , lived in Baildon for some years and

10368-399: The fringe is penetrated by the pins of the intersecting or nacteur combs. Here the drawing-off rollers giving the fibres their final combing, removing the long fibres and leaving the short ones behind. The long fibres or top pass through a revolving funnel to the coiler mechanism and into a can directly underneath. The short fibres or noils remaining in the nacteur combs are transferred to

10496-637: The lands of Eccleshill were given to William, Earl of Warren. In 1274 ownership of lands passed to the Sheffields and in 1407 to the Bolling family of Calverley then the Scargills, Saviles, Wyatts, Zouches, Stanhopes, Hirds, and then to Jeremiah Rawson. In the Middle Ages Eccleshill was shunned by church authorities after a supposed incident in which it is said a preacher or monk was stoned to death on

10624-558: The laps of wool or hair taken from the preceding boxes are prepared into a continuous sliver . This process prepares the material is for the combing machine. Combing straightens the fibres, isolates the long ones ( tops ) for spinning and discards the short ones ( noil ). There are various types of combing machines here, including the French comb, the Lister comb and the Holden comb. The Noble comb

10752-506: The loom, can be raised or lowered to suit, and the seat rocks forward and back as the weaver treadles the loom. The Hattersley 6 x 1 revolving skip box: this dress goods loom, used for the weaving of suiting fabrics etc., is fitted with a negative V or angle dobby, a development of the original invented by Hattersley's in 1867. Known throughout the textile industry as the Keighley dobby, it has since been copied, modified and manufactured in

10880-599: The low rail bridge at Eccleshill Station only low profile double decker trams and buses could get under. In 1874 the Great Northern Railway opened its Laisterdyke - Shipley branch (the Shipley and Windhill line ), a six-mile double track branch line from Quarry Gap junction in Thornbury to Shipley and Windhill railway station , passing Eccleshill , Idle and Thackley railway stations. Eccleshill railway station opened in 1875 with its sidings and coal yard. This

11008-410: The machine through the feed guides to the filing head rollers and transferred to the pins of the comb circle by the lashing action of the filling heads. As the comb circle rotates, the fallers of the square motion rise giving the fibres their initial combing and removing any short fibres or noil and some long fibres termed robbings. The comb circle carries the remaining fibres to the drawing-off head where

11136-399: The main road though Eccleshill village. This supposed incident is said to be the reason behind naming the main road 'Stony Lane'. The real explanation may be that either the road was stony or that it led on to Stone Hall. In 1713 Eccleshill Hall was built for Dr Stanhope, located to the east of Stony Lane at the site of previous Eccleshill Halls, on what is now Victoria Road. Eccleshill hall

11264-401: The monotype caster. The keyboard comprises seven QWERTY arrangements (Roman upper and lower case, bold upper and lower case, italic upper and lower case and small capitals ). It is operated by compressed air and produces a wide paper tape that contains perforations that when transferred to the caster give full instructions for each character to be cast. The monotype system was widely used in

11392-485: The most widely used power looms in the woollen and worsted industries. It was used, with minor adaptations, for weaving goods as varied as light tropical suiting, costume cloths, overcoatings, army and police uniform cloths and heavy blankets. The main feature of this loom is the dobby (located top right of the loom with the hand wheel) which is known as the Knowles, American or positive wheel dobby. This device lifts and lowers

11520-463: The museum held an exhibition titled "A Masonic Experience" . Organised Freemasonry began with the formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, a social fraternity grew out of operative Masonic guilds. This community exhibition will include a replica of a Masonic Lodge , a funnel fragment from a Falklands warship, and a colourful display of Masonic aprons, banners, glassware and ceramics. One of

11648-697: The nearby Guiseley (Shipley having more services). Baildon is served by the West Yorkshire Metro 626, 649, and 656–659 First and Yorkshire Tiger bus services. The main road through Baildon is the A6038 Otley Road while the B6151 Baildon Road / Brow Gate goes the short distance from Otley Road up to Browgate roundabout. There were a large number of First and Middle schools in the area, including Ferniehurst First School, Tong Park First School, Belmont Middle School & Ladderbanks Middle School, before

11776-611: The opposite side of Norman Lane is Prospect Chapel burial ground, created in 1823. Doctrinal disagreement led to a split and the establishment in 1823 of Salem Independent Chapel. Salem Chapel and Sunday school both now demolished, were built on Dobby Row, an event that was to prompt the renaming of the street to Chapel Street. The Chapel Street chapel was eventually replaced by the Congregational Church on Victoria Road near Harrogate Road, built in 1889. Salem Chapel burial ground remains on Chapel Street. The Congregational Church

11904-450: The original mill building. At the north end of Stone Hall Road is a mill variously known as Stone Hall Shed and Whiteley's Mill where worsted was manufactured. Halfway down Stone Hall Road off to the west stood Victoria Mill, a worsted mill. This mill has been demolished and domestic properties now stand on the site. Moorside Mills was built on Moorside Road in 1875 by John Moore for worsted spinning . In 1919 two floors were added and

12032-578: The other in lower Baildon. During the Industrial Revolution , Baildon developed a woollen industry; Westgate House was built in 1814 by the Ambler family who were prominent in the wool trade and the warehouse part of the building was Feathers Bakery now Nine Café adjacent to the mill which is now the Westgate Bar. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, conditions in Bradford deteriorated and poverty and ill health became widespread; Baildon began developing as

12160-442: The pins of the revolving cylinder comb pass, removing the short fibres or noil and any impurities. The drawing-off rollers, mounted on a carriage, grip the fringe of fibres projecting it from the nipper jaws. The intersector comb then descends, piercing the fringe of fibres, the nipper jaws open and the fibres are given their second combing by the rotation and recession of the drawing-off rollers. The combed fibres are then conveyed into

12288-526: The post office are on Fagley Road running east–west. Fagley no longer has any public houses. The local school is Fagley Primary School and in the east of Fagley is the Fagley Youth and Community Centre. Further east is Fagley Beck and the Leeds Country Way bridle path and the border with Pudsey . Ravenscliffe is a housing estate in the north-east of Eccleshill. In Ravenscliffe is a sub post office,

12416-467: The product stood comparison with other local wares, the local market for pottery was eventually supplied by better and cheaper stoneware from Staffordshire, and by 1867 the pottery had been sold to William Woodhead and production switched over to house bricks, firebricks and sewer pipes. The kilns were shut down in the early 20th century, and in 1921 the chimney was demolished, however the manor house still remains. There were numerous coal pits in what

12544-424: The purpose-built 1,000 seat Palladium Cinema on Norman Lane, opened in 1929. Later the cinema changed ownership and in 1931 the new owner John Lambert altered the name to Regal. In 1958 the cinema closed for refurbishment and updating, and reopened later that year, but closed finally in 1966. Later with the construction of an extra internal floor the building was used as a bingo hall, a snooker hall and then

12672-457: The remains of an Iron Age settlement known as Soldier's Trench, sometimes mistaken for a Bronze Age stone circle . A Bronze Age cup-marked rock is incorporated in the bank. Baildon is recorded as Beldone and Beldune in the Domesday Book . In 1066 it belonged to a Gospatric, son of Arnketil, and had passed to Erneis of Buron by 1086. Baildon had two manor houses : one on Hall Cliffe,

12800-474: The rollers are carriers which support and help to control the fibres as they are being drafted. Examples of flyers include a 120-spindle flyer spinner and a 122-spindle flyer twister. The flyer is the original type of mechanical spinning frame and is believed to be a direct development of the Saxony wheel used in hand spinning . It is suitable for producing thick smooth yarns from coarse quality wools and hairs, but

12928-464: The script as a joke, but what Graham Chapman could have said correctly in dialect is, "One o't crossbeams 'as gone out o' skew on't treadle", meaning "One of the crossbeams has gone askew on the treadle". The treadle was a rocking pedal, powered by the worker's foot. The treadle in turn powered a reciprocating beam , and the power from that was transferred to the machinery. On a loom, these reciprocating beams were called lams , and were connected with

13056-600: The site. The only working remnant of the Pleasure Grounds is the Shipley Glen Cable Tramway , a funicular railway carrying passengers from just north of Roberts Park, Saltaire up the hill side through Walker Wood to the location of the Pleasure Grounds at the top of Prod Lane. Baildon lies to the north east of Bradford, and is linked to Bradford and Shipley by the B6151. To the north of Baildon lies Baildon Moor,

13184-428: The site. Union Mills had a serious fire in 1905. In 2019 both mills were demolished and the site cleared to make way for a retail complex. In the 1838 White's Directory Eccleshill is described as engaged in the manufacture of white woollen cloth. In 1872 Tunwell Mill was built by Messrs Smith and Hutton as a woollen mill near Tun Well (Town Well) directly south of Stony Lane—although today's Tunwell Mills are not

13312-400: The south tower was not added until 1928. The east window designed by Powell & Sons was added in 1870. The village is served by Baildon railway station on the electrified Wharfedale Line with connections to Bradford Forster Square and Ilkley . There is however, no service to Leeds owing to its position on the curve between the two lines. Passengers must instead change at Shipley or

13440-505: The start of the Second World War , and were never revived. In northern Shipley off Prod Lane there was a small fairground with dodgem cars , booths and a historic "Aerial Glide" suspended roller coaster that for a short period had listed building status. In earlier years the fairground attractions at Shipley Glen were much more extensive. The fairground closed and is now dismantled and newly built (2015/6) private housing now covers

13568-518: The stocks and a sandstone pillar thought to be the remains of a mediaeval cross, both Grade II listed. On Glen Road on the edge of Baildon Moor, close to Shipley Glen, is Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum , a free-to-visit children's museum, natural history education centre and nature centre. Baildon's War Memorials are situated on Browgate and in Tong Park. North of Upper Coach Road in Shipley

13696-524: The time of the Domesday Book the area was known as Egleshill either meaning 'eagles hill' or perhaps named after a Saxon landlord called Aikel or Eckil—alternatively it could mean Ecclesiastical Hill. In Roman times the Eccleshill area was crossed by two lanes. One lane was along what is now Norman Lane and the other to Apperley Bridge down the road now known as Bank. After the Norman Conquest

13824-410: The treadles by strings which were also connected with jacks to work the yelds . In big factories, power could be transferred from one large drive wheel to another across a wide room via a reciprocating beam, called in that situation a crossbeam. Out of skew is a dialect expression meaning in incorrect position . Whether a foot-driven treadle could power a mighty crossbeam is a moot point, and may be

13952-417: The usual complement of drafting rollers. This machine is an early example of a flyer twisting frame. On the flyer twister, twist imparted to the yarn in a similar manner as on the flyer spinner. A weighted band, running in a groove at the base of the bobbin, retards the revolving bobbin creating enough tension for the flyer to wind the yarn evenly onto the bobbin. The machine is hand doffed. The introduction of

14080-431: The wooden shafts through which the warp ends are threaded, separating the warp threads to produce the shed. The loom has four rising or drop boxes at each side, which can be moved independently, and can weave up to seven shuttles , each with a different colour. The Sowden worsted coating loom: as in all mechanical devices, there is drive to improve efficiency, and this loom has several patent innovations. For example,

14208-493: The wool comber's finished product, and it is in this form that the wool is bought and sold as the spinner's raw material. Spinning is the final stage in converting wool to worsted yarns, the roving being drawn out to its final thickness and twist added for strength. There are three types of spinning machine or frame in common use in the United Kingdom , namely flyer, cap and ring. Another machine used for spinning worsted yarns

14336-413: The yarn, the bobbin which is free to rotate on the spindle is pulled round by the spun yarn. A felt or cloth washer is placed between the lifter plate and bobbin to retard the revolving bobbin and create adequate yarn tension for the flyer to wind the yarn evenly on the bobbin. When the bobbins are full they are removed and replaced by empty ones. This action is termed doffing and is done manually. Twisting

14464-451: Was Eccleshill Upper school and a replacement school was built in Thackley called Immanuel College . Ashcroft Doctor's surgery, Eccleshill Hospital (not A&E) and Inspire business park was built in place on the old Eccleshill Upper school grounds. Eccleshill Public Library is on Bolton Road. In Fagley on Falsgrave Road is Fagley primary school. Eccleshill was the first township to elect

14592-473: Was a rag-rug display. There are educational workshops for school and other groups, including Victorian classroom, World War II classroom and washday sessions. In 1973 the museum held the first solo exhibition of the work of Edna Lumb , noted for her depiction of industrial life, especially equipment such as engines, pylons, quarries and wheels. A retrospective of her work was held in 1991, shortly before her death. From 7 December 2013 to 16 November 2014

14720-636: Was born in Baildon in 1904. Mountaineer Ian Clough was born in Baildon. After he was killed on an expedition to the Himalayan mountain Annapurna in 1970, Ian Clough Hall, a meeting-place and arts venue, was established in Baildon in his memory. In the 1960s, Clough and close friend Chris Bonington were known to have practised their climbing techniques on Baildon Bank – a 1,000-foot-long (300 m), 50-foot-high (15 m), ex-quarry rock-face that looks out towards Bradford . In 1962, Clough and Bonington were

14848-454: Was demolished in 1878 and all that remains are parts of stone gateposts embedded in a roadside wall. Initially the churches built in Eccleshill were nonconformist . Before 1775 the only place of worship in Eccleshill was The Quaker Meeting House on Tunwell Lane. In 1775 Prospect Chapel also known as Bank Top Chapel a Wesleyan Chapel was constructed on Lands Lane off Norman Lane. In 1776 Methodist John Wesley (1703-1791) preached there. On

14976-403: Was demolished in 2016 to make way for housing. Eccleshill is bounded in the east by Pudsey and Fagley Beck— flowing a short distance directly north under the name Carr Beck to meet the River Aire . To the north of Eccleshill is the village of Idle and to the north-east is Greengates and Thorpe Edge . In the City of Leeds is Calverley . To the east across Fagley Beck is Pudsey in

15104-711: Was demolished in the 1960s and the United Reformed Church, a single storey building built on the site in 1967 and the Congregational Church building was demolished in 1979/80. A further split at Prospect Chapel had led to the establishment of Eccleshill United Methodist Chapel on the corner of Workhouse fold now named Stewart Close. In 1854 the remaining worshippers of Prospect Chapel built Eccleshill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Stony Lane and sold Prospect Chapel. The old Prospect Chapel building had many subsequent uses including as an organ works. When congregations shrank at

15232-523: Was established in 1974. A group of local residents held an open meeting on 7 May 1997 and as a result the Baildon Community Council came into being on 26 June 1997 as a means of communicating local interest to appropriate authorities. Residents of Baildon went through the appropriate legal process and as a result Baildon Parish Council was formed which held its first full meeting 14 May 2007. The civil parish does not cover nearby Esholt , part of

15360-480: Was loaned to the Yorkshire Dales Railway Society at Skipton . Her size is ca.23 x 8 x 11 ft, and she weighs 28 tons. The boiler works at 160psi, and she carries 700 gallons in the saddle water tank. The cylinders are 40-inch diameter 20-inch stroke operated by Stephenson's open link valve gear . A British Railways Crane Wagon is on display outside near the museum gates. In the tram shed

15488-448: Was located just north of the rail bridge crossing over Harrogate Road. Only the embankment and abutment of one side of the rail bridge remain. The former Station Hotel on Harrogate Road took its name from its proximity to the railway station. The railway station closed to passengers in 1931 although goods traffic continued on the line until 1964. Subsequently, the line was taken up and the bridge demolished. In 1928 Ralph Dickinson created

15616-479: Was made a local board district in 1852. Elections were held on 16 September 1852, and the first quorate meeting of the local board was held on 9 October 1852. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts with effect from 31 December 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894 . It was then administered by Baildon Urban District Council until it was disbanded when Bradford Metropolitan District Council

15744-539: Was ordered by the Rev William Scoresby , Vicar of Bradford and this was consecrated in 1848. It was designed in a vertical Gothic style with a spire, however, the spire was removed circa 1971 when the stonework began crumbling. The ecclesiastical parish of Eccleshill takes in Greengates , and Apperley Bridge south of the River Aire . The quarrying, pottery, spinning and weaving industries have been located in

15872-555: Was owned by Bradford City Council roads department and carries the council crest on the water tanks. The Biggest exhibit is a locomotive named Nellie, after Nellie Crane the vicar's wife. Nellie is an 0-4-0 saddle tank industrial locomotive 1435, one of two built by Hudswell Clarke in Leeds in 1922 for the Esholt sewage works . When the works were being built, she carried excavated material, and thereafter coal and construction material, then coal and other materials until 1970 when she

16000-563: Was published in November 1900 before he retired. In 2007/2008 the church was moved again, but only by a few yards. This allowed the surrounding land to be sold by the Diocese for development. Rotten timbers were replaced and underground heat pump system installed to make the building more eco-friendly. The Church of St. John the Evangelist designed by Mallinson & Healey, was built in 1848 though

16128-486: Was successful enough for the manufacturers to export it worldwide - for example to the Warsaw Fire Guard - but it was expensive in coal and horses, and was superseded by motor pumps in ca.1900. There are living history events, family activity days, and a yearly Victorian -style Christmas craft market. There are regular temporary exhibitions; in 2003, for example, there was a motorcycle exhibition, and in 2009 there

16256-436: Was the most popular as it would comb long, medium and fairly short staple wool, but the slivers needed special preparation in a punching machine beforehand. In the French comb the slivers of wool are fed forward by ratchet -operated rollers and a pinned feed grid, the leading end of the fibres being pushed beyond the nipper jaws which open and shut to receive and hold them, leaving a fringe of fibres protruding through which

16384-540: Was transferred to the Great Horton system, then went between Saltaire and Undercliffe. However its routes were limited as it was too tall to pass under the railway bridge at Eccleshill station . Here are different types of old machines in working condition; plus printing equipment. This gallery holds machinery from the last of the hot metal typesetting printshops as used in the newspaper industry. The monotype keyboard produces punched 31-level tape for casting on

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