The Flying Shuttle at Wikes Mill, Bury

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An archive film made by Ken Howarth at Wikes Woollen Mill, Bury, Lancashire c 1976. The weaving shed and looms are unusual. The looms are 20 or so feet in width and need a flying shuttle to propel the weft across the warp. The shuttles are flying shuttles based on the fly-shuttle invented by John Kay of Bury in 1733. Wikes were weaving heavy woollen felt blanket used to support wet pulp inside a high-speed paper-making machine.

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@user-mr9jd8hk4t 5 ай бұрын

My ancestors invented Shoddy and Mungo i am directly descended from both men. Benjamin Law invented Shoddy in 1813, unfortunately he died pennyless and moved his family from Birstall to Stockport around 1815-1818. Some of the family moved back to West Yorkshire the Parrs carried on in Howley lower mill. Benjamin Laws daughter married a yeast merchant in Salford and they made a lot of money having shares in The Manchester Shipping canal, The Blackpool Tower Company and Trafford Park they had 3 servants and a horseman. They never had any children and left all the money and Rose Cottage in Braughton Road to two of the servants which were Catherine (Law) Barretts nieces, thus the money stayed with the family and went to build three houses on Bradford Road near Oakwell Hall in Birstall. One of the houses was named Roseleigh and my father was born there. The invention provided tens of thousands of jobs for the people of Batley, Birstall and Dewsbury. I own a tapestry which Catherine made in 1840 and i named my Tangye steam engine Catherine.