Description
This photograph was staged during an arranged visit to a mill. It was impossible for Humphrey Spender to be a secret observer in work places and homes. It is likely that this mill belongs to the Barlow family who helped to fund the Mass Observation study in Bolton. If you can help us to identify this mill then please leave a comment below.
My wife Dolores and her Mom Daisy worked at the Bee Hive Mills on Crescent Road back in 1963-64
Daisy was a Carder and Dolores was Ribbon and Derby.
We came to America 1970
and we had a in-law on a visit bring me the old original yarn strength tester that was thrown out in the trash by the Bee Hive Mill new takeover management.
It had a missing bronze clamp so I guess they though it worthless.
We had a new special made to fit clamp and made it perfect.
The nameplate states:
GOODBRAND & Co. Ltd.
makers
Manchester & Stalybridge
It is highly probable that the material Carded by my Mom in-law and then Ribbon and Derby-ed by my wife was strength tested on this very Bee Hive Tester
Bee Hive product was shipped to every corner of the world