Visited Masson Mills Textile Museum in Derbyshire this morning. They have a museum with working machines that process fleece into threads and then into fabric. We had the place practically to ourselves. It had a wonderfully abandoned air to it. It was packed with machines, some with work left unfinished on them, others just standing there in rows, motionless and dead. There were cardboard people, bleached almost colourless, positioned like ghosts about the place. An industrial graveyard of sorts.
Cotton doubling machine
Cotton doubling machine
Ghost like cardboard figure using cotton mule
The Devil
Wall of dyed fibers
Wall of dyed fibers
Machines in the mechanics’ shop
Masson Mills have the most comprehensive archive collection on the Bobbin industry in the world and starts in 1795 up until 1980
Boiler end cap
