Heritage Exhibition
Situated on Level 2 is
an exhibition, sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund, created
by local people and devoted to the heyday and eventual decline
of the Victorian wealth-creating woollen and textile industry in
the Sedbergh area.The
exhibition concentrates on a plan of the layout of Farfield Mill
in 1911, going on to explain the processes employed i.e.
carding, scribbling, tentering, dyeing and finishing to name but
a few. Examples of these processes are displayed from the raw
fleece to the finished woollen cloth.
A potted history of the Mill is
described from its inception in 1836 to its decline in the 1950s
highlighting the employment of children, as young as 8 years,
the long working hours and the dangerous conditions. The Mill
was eventually restored by the Sedbergh and District Buildings
Preservation Trust in the 1990s. |
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Areas of
interest include the positioning of the willey shed, the life of
William Stainton who worked at the mill, man and boy from the
age of 8 until the age of 94 and the rules and regulations
governing the behaviour of employees i.e. they 'will wash
themselves at least twice every week and failure to do so
incurred a fine 3d'
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