Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme. Victorian Spinning In The 21st Century
Spinning worsted yarn at Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon UK.
Steam Day at Coldharbour Mill
Steam Day at the Mill, a sequence I made for a presentation at Coldharbour Mill, a working woollen museum in Uffculme, Devon. The close ups are intended to intrigue, as we join the visitors on a tour to examine these wonderful machines. I love the mechanisms of these steam-belching beasts, kept in full working order by a dedicated team of soot-blackened volunteers.
Project Splash at Uffculme's Coldharbour Mill
PROPOSALS to remove up to 11million litres of sludge from Mill Pond to turn it into a community space in Uffculme have been unveiled at Coldharbour Mill.
Project Splash aims to regenerate the highly overgrown Mill Pond and Leat at Coldharbour Mill Museum; restore its capability to drive the Mill’s waterwheel and spinning machines and the vital, uninterrupted flow for the steam engines. Those backing the scheme say it will create a lasting, educational and wildlife-rich linkage for the heritage landscape of the Culm Valley, extend the tourist potential for the area and will be a free access area for the local community and visitors to the Mill.
Ben Fox, who is the project co-ordinator for Project Splash said the scheme would cost up to £2million and is part of a wider scheme to provide £25million of improvements to the centre in the next decade.
Short video of Coldharbour Woollen Mill machinery
Short video of Coldharbour Woollen Mill machinery. Uffculme,Devon, England. Rare Pollit & Wigzell Mill engine, 1867 steam Beam Engine and weaving machine.
Coldharbour Mill - Highlights - With Subtitles
Coldharbour Mill - 15th October 2013
A fly around the 126ft chimney that is being repointed. The top 30ft is currently being repaired. Coldharbour Mill is a 200 year old spinning mill set in the tranquil Devon village of Uffculme. Built by Thomas Fox to spin woollen and later worsted yarns in 1799, Coldharbour Mill is a rare example of surviving Georgian architecture, industry and enterprise.
COLD HARBOUR MILL PROMO
Promo for a great investigation opportunity.
The Mill - Mechanized Carding, Spinning, Weaving on Edwardian Farm
Ruth Goodman visits Coldharbour Mill, in Devon, England. It is one of the oldest woollen textile mills in the world, having been in continuous production since 1797, apart from a short period whilst it was converted into a working wool museum. Coldharbour Mill is unusual to have used both water and steam power right up to the time of its demise as a commercial venture.
At the time of its closure in April 1981, Coldharbour Mill still had its textile machinery in position. The majority of these machines have been preserved (though not all are exhibited), and have been augmented with weaving machines rescued from the closure of the Tonedale site. The lowest part of the site, the level 1 combing shed, dealt with the initial cleaning and combing of the unwashed wool. The process involved a number of separate stages, each with a specialised machine. The eight opening gill machines (made by Taylor Wadsworth & Co) opened up the fleeces and prepared the wool for washing in a large back-washer with steam heated rollers. Following the washing, further gill boxes produced successively combed fibres, which were passed to a circular Noble combing machine. This machine separated the fibres into long Tops and the short poor quality fibres. Although these machines are preserved on site, they are no longer in use today. British wool tops are purchased in, dyed into standard colours, and then up to ten strands of tops are fed into the Intersecting Gill Box (manufactured by Prince Smith and Stells in 1959). The gill box starts the process of drawing out the fibres, and also enables new colours to be created by blending together the standard colours.. The output of the gill box is termed a sliver. This particular machine has a mechanism to ensure the weight of the sliver is constant, which is important to ensure the final yarn thickness is constant. The next process is to draw the slivers out further, and to give the fibres a small twist to strengthen the resulting slubbing such that it can be wound onto a bobbin. At Coldharbour Mill, this is demonstrated on a Price Smith and Stells draw box of 1959. (Link to a Charlie Hearnshaw film of the draw box in action). The bobbins from this machine are then placed in a further draw box by Prince Smith and Stells, this time an 1898 machine, and the thread from a pair of bobbins is drawn out to a seventh of its diameter, and given a light twist. If this output is to be used for Aran yarn production, it is termed a roving, and is sent on to the spinning frame. However, if the slubbing is for double knitting yarn, the slubbing must go through another reduction on a draw box.
Link to a Charlie Hearshaw film of the gill box in action:
The mill was one of a number owned by Fox Brothers. At its peak the company employed approximately 5,000 people and owned and operated nine mills and factories in Somerset, Devon, and Oxfordshire.
Exeter was the centre of the mediaeval woollen trade in England, with cloth being exported to the Continental markets of France, Holland and Germany.
Coldharbour Mill Shop & Visitor Centre Opening Opening
VISITORS at Coldharbour Mill will now be able to enjoy a new welcome centre and shop after its grand opening last week.
Dignitaries and supporters of the mill, which is one of the oldest woollen mills in the UK joined descendant of the Fox Brother’s who founded the mill, Richard Fox, and chair of the Coldharbour Mill Trust Martin Holse for the ribbon cutting on Thursday, March 24.
The opening of the new facilities is part of the mill’s Fit for the Future campaign which aims to establish Coldharbour Mill as the premier textile heritage centre in the South West.
The Heritage Lottery Fund contributed just under £50,000 to the cause which was match funded by supporters and various charitable trusts.
Five generations after the mill was founded by Thomas Fox in 1796, his descendant Richard Fox, cut the ribbon to open the visitor centre and shop.
“This is a unique place,” he said.
“We should be in a state of awe at the abilities of the trustees in charge of all this. We are priviledged that such gifted people with some very impressive CVs who are probably wanted everywhere, chose to work here with such energy.
“We are grateful to them and thank their supporting staff, volunteers and tenants.
“The potential of Coldharbour Mill is enormous. This place can do good things for so many people and we all have the opportunity to join in. There is nowhere else like this in all of southern England.”
Trustees are now looking at raising £25,000 for a platform lift to ensure access to all exhibition floors within the main building, particularly as the area that was once the factory’s combing shed is now to be turned into part of the museum display.
As well as improvements to the site, there will also be an enhanced focus on education provision and the re-establishment of local textile production, reflecting pride in the Mill’s heritage.
Martin Holse said: “Today is an incredibly important day for the Mill as it is the start of our journey to rejuvenate the centre.
“It’s been a lot of hard work by a lot of volunteers and a lot of grant writing, bids and courting money to be able to make the start that we have made.
“I just hope those who visit will see that progress is being made and that progress will be continual and that each time they return they will see improvements – even if it is just a little bit at a time.
“I think the future of the Mill is fairly bright and rosy. We have lots plans of challenges as well, but for the next five to ten years it’s going to be incredibly exciting.”
Boiler Coldharbour Mill
Boiler Coldharbour Mill
Coldharbour Mill Steam Up
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Lancashire Textiles: Last Mill Standing
Lancashire, UK used to supply 40% of the world's cotton fabric. Today, Joe McBride is trying to keep his textile mill alive despite a changed horizon.
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Masson Cotton Textile Mill, Derbyshire
Masson Mills working textile museum, Derbyshire, possibly the UK's finest collection of working textile machines
John Arbon Textiles - A Short Day In The Mill
John Arbon Textiles - A Short Day In The Mill
Fine British Worsted Yarns from the Heart of Devon
John Arbon Textiles & Fibre Harvest Ltd
Lynton, PO Box 8, Devon EX35 6WY
Video by James & Mark Hankins
Music - Moondog
Working cotton weaving Victorian era textiles mill
Images Of The Culm Valley
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High Park Barn, Uffculme, Blackdown Hills, Devon
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This cosy detached barn conversion is situated adjacent to the owners' farmhouse on the outskirts of Uffculme, a Devon village in the Blackdown Hills. A perfect romantic retreat, this Uffculme cottage is all on the ground floor and has wooden floors throughout, an open plan living area, a double bedroom and a shower room. Outside this Devon cottage there is a courtyard garden from where guests are welcome to wander to a wildlife pond. The village of Uffculme has a shop, pub, splendid walks along the River Culm and Coldharbour Mill, which is the only surviving woollen mill in Devon and has a fascinating working museum. Half an hour's drive from this Uffculme cottage will take you to the beautiful cathedral city of Exeter, which has a mix of culture, historic buildings, quality restaurants and shops. This Uffculme cottage is a great base in rural Devon.
Visit to Morwellham quay - Devon
Day trip to Morwellham quay in Devon
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Rotative beam engine | Wikipedia audio article
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A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall. The efficiency of the engines was improved by engineers including James Watt, who added a separate condenser; Jonathan Hornblower and Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine. Beam engines were first used to pump water out of mines or into canals, but could be used to pump water to supplement the flow for a waterwheel powering a mill.
The rotative beam engine is a later design of beam engine where the connecting rod drives a flywheel, by means of a crank (or, historically, by means of a sun and planet gear). These beam engines could be used to directly power the line-shafting in a mill. They also could be used to power steam ships.
The Upottery Airfield Nissen Hut Heritage Centre
Had a wander around this interesting place, lots of info and artifacts from ww2 , especially Upottery Airfield , The place where the famous 'Band of Brothers' departed from for D-Day . Well worth a visit , i for one will be going back for further visits.