<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>.
<p>Here a tackler is running two Pemberton<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Loom" class="extiw" title="w:Lancashire Loom">'Burnley' Looms</a>, in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/more_looms" class="extiw" title="w:more looms">six loom set</a>. You see him start the loom by moving the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/line_shaft" class="extiw" title="w:line shaft">leather drive belt</a> from the idler to the drive wheel and the motion of the loom. He replenishes a shuttle and has both looms working.
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In working times, all of the looms would have been in operation at once, one set per operator.
Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent.
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>