Found ourselves in Matlock Bath this weekend, had a visit to the Arkwright mill museum, wasn't expecting much but turned out to be a good visit.
Plenty of old machinery, signage and oil, my kind of place. Tucked away in the basement was the metalwork shop/forge for maintaining/making parts for the spinning machines.
They really knew how to make some stunning machinery, it'd just be a cream coloured box with an LCD screen nowadays.
This fly press was a beast
The old bobbins. Pic doesn't do it justice, the wall to the right was full of them too.
Well worth a visit if you're in the area.
Plenty of old machinery, signage and oil, my kind of place. Tucked away in the basement was the metalwork shop/forge for maintaining/making parts for the spinning machines.
They really knew how to make some stunning machinery, it'd just be a cream coloured box with an LCD screen nowadays.
This fly press was a beast
The old bobbins. Pic doesn't do it justice, the wall to the right was full of them too.
Well worth a visit if you're in the area.