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- 66bdfc83-b0b1-4813-b0f3-2916c0b3b94c type E33_Linguistic_Object industriemuseum.
- 66bdfc83-b0b1-4813-b0f3-2916c0b3b94c P2_has_type Inhoud_opschrift industriemuseum.
- 66bdfc83-b0b1-4813-b0f3-2916c0b3b94c P41i_was_classified_by e241c6ec-9d39-4d9d-a8d1-1e4b13f10ad4 industriemuseum.
- 66bdfc83-b0b1-4813-b0f3-2916c0b3b94c P190_has_symbolic_content "<p><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:8.5pt;">Helmshore / Higher Mill / An 18th Century Woollen Fulling Mill / Higher Mill was constructed as a water / powered fulling mill in 1789 by six members of a / family called Turner. This was one of the first / fulling mills to be built in Rossendale. Such mills / were already in existence at Rochdale and local / weavers had to send their woollen cloth to them / over the moorland packhorse routes. The activities / of the chapmen delivering and collecting cloth to / and from Rochdale were much reduced by the / construction of mills like Higher Mill in this valley / Although only a small number of people / worked at Higher Mill the Turners controlled a / large number of spinners and weavers working in / their own homes. A son of one of the Turners who / built Higher Mill was William Turner (1793- / 1852). He owned a number of mills in Helmshore / and made a big contribution to the development / of the place by building houses and contributing / substantially to the construction of the church. / Towards the end of his life he played an active / part in bringing the railway to Helmshore. The / building of the viaduct made it necessary to / demolish the east end of Higher Mill and it seems / that William Turner made substantial improvements / to the mill during this upheaval. / For about the last century of its commercial / operation Higher Mill was run by the Whittaker / family. Relatively little modernisation was carried / out during this period, but electricity was / introduced and the waterwheel was subsequently only / used to drive the stocks. Some work was carried / out on the wheel bearings and the internally / toothed rim gear just before the war but in 1954 the / drive to the stocks failed. The machinery was then / all driven by electricity until June 1967 when / Edith and Rossall Whittaker retired and the mill / closed. // Fulling is ...</span></p>" industriemuseum.