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Steam-powered worsted-spinning mill. Planned as double mill by J B Bailey and Sons, Keighley, with first phase of 1906-8 providing a seventeen-bay mill of four storeys and basement with engine house, boiler house, chimney and small shed. Second phase, of 1926, gave nineteen-bay addition to mill, carried out in same style. Engine house and rope race, sited to one end of first mill, became central after addition of extension.
Aerial photographic view of Knowle Mill (Keighley, West Yorkshire).
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I think my great grandfather owned a textile mill in Keighley during the early 1800s and apparently a relative-Thomas Hird was operating spindles at the Knowle Mill around 1910
My grandfather, Francis Hird came to the US in 1866 via Liverpool
The neighborhood in Philadelphia that he selltled in is Kensington and was the center of the textile industry in the US during the early 1900s. Is there a source for more info related to Hird Family-textile available?
Thanks
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Yorkshire textile mills, 2010-25. This site is kindly hosted by Cédula de habitabilidad.
