This image of weavers at the Sunny Bank Mills at Farsley, near Leeds, was taken in 1905 and shows the mills all decorated up to celebrate the then mills’ owner, Edwin Woodhouse, being elected lord mayor of Leeds. The archive is open on the first Wednesday of the month between 10am-noon or by appointment – contact
archive@sunnybankmills.co.uk.
Photo: Sunny Bank Mills Ltd.
The textiles archive at the Sunny Bank Mills at Farsley, near Leeds in West Yorkshire, which was founded in 1829, is a fascinating piece of textiles history.
It includes weaving looms, 5000 wool-dyeing recipe cards, 8000 fabric designs, hundreds of ledgers detailing the minutiae of the mills’ day to day administration as well as photographs and memorabilia.