Another factory, tucked away and almost un-noticable unless you look. Tweek had an initial poke and I joined him for a foray into this fairly secure site to try and find a way into the derelict parts, typically this was sealed up tight and we ended up in the live parts (caveat, this is Live still so be careful if you do visit)
Oh well. More knitting and weaving machines, the space that we got into was mainly filled with a large Bruckner rolling / finishing machine and lots and lots of finished cloth, both packaged and unpackaged.
The village is known by locals as ‘Shat’ (various reasons have been put forward for this nickname but the favourite appears to be that when the railway was being built labourers were required to shatter tons of rocks), like many villages in the Huddersfield area, it was first settled by Danes in the ninth century; the suffix ‘thorpe’ indicating Danish origin. The Vikings (invaders from Scandinavia) first attacked Britain in 789 AD but it was not until nearly a century later that some of these invaders began settling in the area.
It is unclear when weaving first began in Skelmanthorpe but certainly by the end of the eighteenth century a number of handloom weavers and clothiers existed in the village; indeed a number of former weavers’ cottages can still be seen in the village today. Joseph Field is one of the first recorded clothiers in the area and his family went on to own three of the village’s textile mills – Elm, Tentercroft and this one, Greenside.
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Oh well. More knitting and weaving machines, the space that we got into was mainly filled with a large Bruckner rolling / finishing machine and lots and lots of finished cloth, both packaged and unpackaged.
The village is known by locals as ‘Shat’ (various reasons have been put forward for this nickname but the favourite appears to be that when the railway was being built labourers were required to shatter tons of rocks), like many villages in the Huddersfield area, it was first settled by Danes in the ninth century; the suffix ‘thorpe’ indicating Danish origin. The Vikings (invaders from Scandinavia) first attacked Britain in 789 AD but it was not until nearly a century later that some of these invaders began settling in the area.
It is unclear when weaving first began in Skelmanthorpe but certainly by the end of the eighteenth century a number of handloom weavers and clothiers existed in the village; indeed a number of former weavers’ cottages can still be seen in the village today. Joseph Field is one of the first recorded clothiers in the area and his family went on to own three of the village’s textile mills – Elm, Tentercroft and this one, Greenside.
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