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Description: | c.1940s.
View of carding engine on the top floor of Armley Mills, photograph taken during a wartime blackout. Carding was a method of straightening and arranging woollen fibres to prepare it to be spun into yarn. It could be dangerous work as in 1822 George Dyson, aged 13, was killed at Armley Mills after being trapped in a carding engine. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Armley Mills | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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