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Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill 001

1950s aerial shot of Stanhill Ring-Spinning Mill, West End Oswaldtwistle. Ring Spinning was a continuous process of spinning the cotton thread, unlike the widespread (in Lancashire) mule spinning process which used an intermittent back and forth process of drawing the threads.

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Image Height 437
Image Width 640
Image Copyrights Unknown
Image Location Unknown
Date 1951-1960
Image Format Newspaper Cutting
Place Oswaldtwistle
Subjects Cotton Mills
Image Collections Sumner, Michael