<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_Mill" class="extiw" title="w:Queen Street Mill">Queen Street Mill</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harle_Syke" class="extiw" title="w:Harle Syke">Harle Syke</a>, a suburb to the north-east of Burnley, Lancashire, was built in 1894 for the Queen Street Manufacturing Company. It closed on 12 March 1982 and was mothballed, but was subsequently taken over by Burnley Borough Council and used as a museum. In the 1990s ownership passed to Lancashire Museums. Unique in being the world's only surviving steam-driven <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/weaving_shed" class="extiw" title="w:weaving shed">weaving shed</a>.
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<ul><li>The Northrop loom was invented in 1891 by James Henry Northrop who invented the self changing shuttle device. The model S has a dobby to control the main weave with a jacquarette to to handle the pattern in the green name  band.</li></ul><dl><dd>The Leesona Unifil was first sold in 1958 is a high speed pirn winder where a depleted pirn is filled and replaced in the pirn rack.</dd>
<dd>County Brook Mill</dd></dl>
Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent.
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