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Image shows the interior of the last major building project at J.& S. Rhodes' Prospect Mills in Victoria Road. A vast, single storey weaving shed was constructed next to the three storey 1934 building. This new weaving shed was built in the boom time of the early 1950s. In fact, the post-war year of highest employment in Morley's textile trade was 1955 with over 7,500 workers. This weaving shed was filled with Northrop automatic looms which could be used for all woollen or Union cloth. Some of the red, ladies' coating material seen in other processes is seen being woven here. The floor of the weaving shed is of concrete to stand the huge weight of the looms. The weavers stand on wooden boards between the looms, which is better than being on concrete all day long. Generally, the weavers in this shed would weave two pairs of looms placed back-to-back so that there was no need to move from the wooden platform. The main task was to keep the circular magazines at the side of each loom filled with bobbins that would be transferred to the shuttles. Notice that here there is no vast array of pulleys, belts and driving rods as would be needed if the looms worked directly from the steam engine. These looms had individual electric motors. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Victoria Road weaving shed weaver loom Prospect Mills | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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