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[5] At this point the loom has become fully automatic, this is the Kenworthy and Bullough Lancashire Loom. The Cartwight loom weaver could work one loom at 120–130 picks per minute- with a Kenworthy and Bullough's Lancashire Loom, a weaver can run up to six looms working at 220–260 picks per minute- thus giving 12 times more throughput.
The firm of Howard and Bleakley was founded in 1851 with four workers; [1] in 1856 Bleakley retired and the partnership was changed to Howard & Bullough. John Bullough had perfected a self-acting temple on his handloom, and with William Kenworthy at Brookhouse Mills had been responsible for the Lancashire Loom. [2]
The 1903 extension involved leasing 8,000 square yards (6,700 m 2) of adjoining land and building a new weaving shed, which housed 990 looms and was 50 metres (160 ft) by 46 metres (151 ft), doubling the size of the weaving floor. This shed is known as top shed or Siberia due to it starting up before the steam heating pipes were working.
The rioters were widely supported locally, and not only by fellow handloom weavers. Amongst those arrested in Blackburn, for instance, were labourers, a farmer, a confectioner, a butcher and even power-loom weavers. An eye-witness to the rioting in Chorley noted that "there can be no doubt that a great multitude of the townspeople were their ...
Originally a six-storey combined mill 280 ft by 50 ft, with side wings. It was designed to house 125,000 throstle and 33,000 mule spindles. Later in 1887 it was recorded as having 140,000 spindles and 1000 power looms. The original beam engine was replaced around 1912, and a new separate engine house built.
Standing : 205: Notes: This is a complex combined mill which has housed spinning, weaving and printing, spinning and sizing in an 1823 four storey 13 bay block, and an 1830s block. The offices and warehouses were built in 1843 and weaving sheds in 1853. At this time there were 16,000 mule spindles and 707 looms.