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Description: | The industries covered by the collections are those of silk, gloving and gas.
The silk industry became an important aspect in 18th century Sherborne when a silk mill was set up by William Willmott in 1762. There are letter books and other records from the mill and a fine piece of flowered silk woven from Sherborne yarn in the 1780s. The Sherborne silk industry survived long enough to provide dresses for Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee and for the trousseau of Princess Elizabeth in 1947.
There are items from the gas works, founded in 1836; and the water pumping station at Castleton, set up in 1881. | Subjects: | Science & Industry | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Abbey Gate House
Sherborne,
DT9 3BP | Telephone: | 01935 812 252 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2850 | Go to resource |
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