National Art Pass offers available at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

Free entry
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Free entry at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

The National Art Pass lets you enjoy free entry to hundreds of museums, galleries and historic places across the UK, while raising money to support them.

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Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

Burnley

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The last operational steam-powered weaving mill in the world, Queen Street Mill is located just outside Burnley, a town once dominated by the textile industry.

In its Victorian heyday Queen Street Mill specialised in producing plain calico cloth. Visitors can see the machinery – a complete collection of national importance – preserved in full working order, including the Lancashire looms, boilers and a steam engine named Peace.

The Mill was producing cloth until its closure in 1982 when it was down to 440 looms, having originally been equipped with 900 and a further 366 added in the 'bottom shed'.

Now it is a perfect time capsule of Victorian manufacturing, bringing the past to life and telling the story of cotton cloth production, offering insights into local social history along the way.

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