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Cowling's Local History Group

  • About
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    • Meeting Dates
  • Archive
  • Leisure
    • Hitchinstone Poem.
    • HARD TIMES RECALLED A WORTHY COWLING OCTOGENARIA
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  • People
    • Daniel Binns
      • Daniel Binns Artist
    • Philip Snowden
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  • Areas
    • Wainman’s Pinnacle
    • Broughton Hall
    • Ickornshaw
    • Stott Hill
  • Work
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    • John Binns & Sons Ltd
    • Poulty
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  • Education
    • Cowling County Primary School WW11 Log Book
  • Gallery
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      • Cowling
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      • Stott Hill
      • Hitching Stone Gallery
      • Carr Head
      • Wainmans Pinacle Gallery
      • Lund Tower Gallery
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      • World War One Casualties
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      • Donna Peters Gallery
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  • Places of faith
    • St Andrews Church
    • Bar Chapel
    • Cowling Hill Baptist Chapel
    • Holy Trinity Church
  • Links to other sites.

Textiles

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Outworkers in Textiles in 1845 -9

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Mark Barnes Bairstows, early textile manufacturers, Early textile workshops, handloom weavers, Moonrakers, Outworkers, Textiles

Below is a list of outworkers from Bairstows Mill in Sutton-in-Craven, only approximately 2 miles east of Cowling parish. Cowling

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Textiles Uncategorized Work 

Cowling Parish Textile Mills 18 – 20th Centuries

February 16, 2021March 7, 2021 Mark Barnes Acre Shed, Carr Mill, Croft Mill, Freegate Mill, Gill Bottom Mill, Ickornshaw Mill, Lumb Mill, Moonrakers, Royd Mill

Below is a list of all the steam powered mills that have been used for manufacturing textiles in Cowling Parish.

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Textiles Uncategorized Work 

Early Textile Mills and Workshops Pre 1850

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 Mark Barnes early textile manufacturers, Early textile mills, Early textile workshops, Moonrakers

We list below the information we know about early textile mills and workshops in the parish. These pre-date steam-powered textile

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Textiles Uncategorized 

Gill Bottom Mill Fire 1870

May 15, 2020May 16, 2020 Mark Barnes Gill Bottom Mill, Gott, Keighley Fire Engine, Laycock, mill Fire, Textiles

Report taken from Keighley News 3rd December 1870. About a quarter to five on Wednesday morning Gill Bottom Mill, Cowling,

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Ickornshaw Textiles Work 

Ickornshaw 1800, Conditions of Work

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Ickornshaw, Moonrakers

The evidence relating to Ickornshaw Mill given on June 2nd 1832 before the Committee of the House of Commons on

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Monthly Reports Textiles Uncategorized 

Early Textile Information Needed

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Mark Barnes Cowling, Moonrakers

At our May meeting members heard about the progress made in compiling a book of our WW1 research, which will

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Alfred Teal Leisure People Textiles 

The Tyrants of Gillbeck Mill.

July 29, 2017July 31, 2017 Michael Green

Credits: David Hoyle THE TYRANT of GILLBECK MILL IN FOUR ACTS by ALFRED TEAL Author of ” The Crowling Ironsides.”

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John Binns & Sons Ltd People Textiles Work 

John Binns & Sons Ltd. Weaving a Century.

July 28, 2017August 24, 2017 Michael Green Binns, Cowling, family, history

Weaving a Century – The centenary celebration of Binns’ Factory The following text is copied from the Centenary Book published

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Outworkers in Textiles in 1845 -9
Textiles Uncategorized Work 

Outworkers in Textiles in 1845 -9

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Mark Barnes

Below is a list of outworkers from Bairstows Mill in Sutton-in-Craven, only approximately 2 miles east of Cowling parish. Cowling

Cowling Parish Textile Mills 18 – 20th Centuries
Textiles Uncategorized Work 

Cowling Parish Textile Mills 18 – 20th Centuries

February 16, 2021March 7, 2021 Mark Barnes
Early Textile Mills and Workshops Pre 1850
Textiles Uncategorized Work 

Early Textile Mills and Workshops Pre 1850

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 Mark Barnes
The Foresters Hall
Cowling Village Leisure Leisure Uncategorized Work 

The Foresters Hall

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Mark Barnes

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Cowlinghistory.co.uk is the website for MOONRAKERS, Cowling’s Local History Group. Cowling Parish is at the south west of North Yorkshire, near its boundaries with Lancashire and West Yorkshire. It was in the old West Riding of Yorkshire.

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