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Knockando, Woolmill

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Interior. View showing 1872 condenser set.
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Interior. View of doubling frame.
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Interior. View of copper.
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View from NW.
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View of waterwheel. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
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Main mill building (extended 1870s and 1890s), view of waterwheel and lade
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Main mil building and wooden hut, view from south west
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Extension (1890s) to main mill, view from south west
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Interior. Main mill building, view of Scribbler (Patent Automatic Feeding Machine, 1919, made in Rochdale). This feeds the Doffer or carding engine behind
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Interior. Main mill building, view of spinning mules (Platt Brothers, Oldham, c.1870)
DP 188857
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Interior. Main mill building, teazling machine, also known as a 'teazling gig'. When woollen cloth is woven and taken in from the tenter frames, it is rough in appearance. Teazling (using the seed pods of the dipsacus fullonum) raises the cloth pile and is, along with shearing and raising, a finishing process
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Interior. New Weaving Shed (former conservation studio during conservation work carried out on buildings and machinery).
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Oblique aerial view of Knockando Woollen Mill, looking ESE.
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Knockando, Woolmill, NJ14SE 20, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
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Interior. View of automatic feeder.
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Interior. View of mill owner, Hugh Jones, operating a Dobcross Loom in the weaving shed.
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View from W.
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Detail of water wheel.
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General view from NE.
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House, rear door, view from south
DP 188825
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Main mill building, view from south
DP 188853
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Interior. Main mill building, view of Intermediate Carding Machine. After wool soaked to remove dirt and grease, oiled in thenscribbler to make it easier to work with, it is put through rough, intermediate and fine carding prior to spinning
DP 188854
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Mill lade going over path, view from north. Known as the Creepie, this allowed access under the lade pipe between the dwellings, blanket drying store and main mill building
DP 188879
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Shop and cafeteria, view from south east
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