Almost 200 years old, the mill was among the most significant cloth makers in the world
"There is a great pride in the history of the mills, a lot of families remember working in the mills or the stories from when their parents and grandparents did.
Sunny Bank Mills is to open its archive and gallery this coming weekend from Friday to Sunday, with scheduled guided tours that must be booked in advance. Here there is housed a complete record of cloth samples, woven at the mill since the 1880s. Once, more than 900 people were employed at Sunny Bank, spinning and weaving some of the finest cloth in the world, and artefacts remain to take visitors on a tour through time.
"We made some of the finest cloth in the world," he said."Some, you couldn't believe it was wool, it was so fine it felt like silk.
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