Regency Mill, Macclesfield, Cheshire

Photograph taken 22 September 1999 © Ms Patricia Layhe ARPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 390943

This former silk mill was built in 1820. It has since been a card factory and a joinery works. The mill is an interesting example of an integrated site, which included silk manufacture and throwing, weaving and dyeing.

Location

Cheshire Macclesfield

Period

Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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The machines to the right of this picture are carding machines. These used spiked drums in which the cotton was rotated. This process aligned the fibres, which were then placed in buckets as lengths or 'slivers'. The slivers were combined on a doubling frame, which is the machine that most of these women are working on.

Regency Mill, Macclesfield, Cheshire

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