Wikipedia:GLAM/Queen Street Mill Museum

As of 5 March 2013, Andy Mabbett is Wikipedian in Residence at Queen Street Mill Museum, which is under the auspices of Lancashire County Council.

Participants

* = new editors

• ClemRutter (talk · contribs)
• Brunneditor (talk · contribs)
• TheGingerEditor (talk · contribs)
• 5istanbul (talk · contribs)
• Bcripple (talk · contribs)
• Dragonsaysyes (talk · contribs)
• Bahamamama856 (talk · contribs)
• Mainlymazza (talk · contribs)
• Trappedinburnley (talk · contribs)
• Staceydolxx (talk · contribs)
• Worm That Turned (talk · contribs)
• Susan Gleave (talk · contribs) *
• Jhayward001 (talk · contribs) *
• Wikiwerdna (talk · contribs)

Event

A successful backstage pass tour and editathon was held at the museum on 4 May 2013. A second event was held on 10 May 2014.

Articles

Requested

Please add your suggestions and requests!

• Machinery makers
  • Blakes pumps
  • Pemberton & Son (aka Pemberton Brothers?)
  • Harding & Todd
  • British Northrop (or improve Northrop Loom); see, James Henry Northrop
  • Burnley Ironworks
  • James Proctor Ltd LT
• Textile makers
  • Horrockses, Miller & Co (see John Horrocks (politician))
  • Jones Textilaties
• Other
  • Cotton industry in Lancashire (to be split from Cotton industry and developed)
  • Cotton Manufacturing Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1934
  • Royce generator
  • Kings Mill
  • Red links in Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
  • Red links in Weaving shed
  • All other links in Weaving shed to be followed, examined and corrected/rewritten see for example Warp weft and shuttle.

To expand

• Machinery makers
  • Butterworth and Dickinson
• Other
  • William Linton (artist)
  • Flued boiler#Lancashire boiler - also add refs

Created

• Beamer (occupation)
• Custom House, Lancaster
• Reginald Aspinwall
• Dobby (cloth)
• William Roberts & Co of Burnley
• Textile sizing machine
• Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 - Has been promoted to good article! Woohoo!
• Bancroft Mill
• More looms
• Kissing the shuttle
• Piece-rate list‎
• Parsley Peel
• Harle Syke Mill
• Tinker, Shenton & Co
• Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills
• T. Wildman & Sons

Improved

• Robert Rawlinson
• Hattersley loom
• Clitheroe Castle

Did you know?

Kissing the shuttle was mentioned on the main page as part of the Bancroft Shed item.

Nomination: {{Did you know nominations/Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills}}

Categories

Main

• Commons:Category:Lancashire
• Category:Textile mills in Lancashire
• Category:Textile mills in the United Kingdom

Commons

• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill boilers
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill -500hp Engine 'Peace'
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Green's Economiser
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill -Videos
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Wikipedians at Backstage Pass 4 May 2013
• Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Wikipedians at Backstage Pass 10 May 2014
• Commons:Category:Tinker, Shenton & Co

Useful resources

Cover of hardback book, 'The Textile Industries - A Practical Guide to Fibres, Yarns & Fabrics in every branch of Textile Manufacture including Preparation of Fibres, Spinning, Doubling, Designing, Weaving, Bleaching, Printing Dyeing and Finishing' by William S. Murphy (8 volumes).

Local

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria
• List of mills in Lancashire
• List of museums in Lancashire

Editing

• Wikipedia:Introduction
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet (Cheatsheet also available as a PDF)
• Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual for your PC or e-reader

Gallery

Video by Clem Rutter

Images and video taken during the project

• 
  library
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  stores
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  stores
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  stores
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  stores
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  Kentish loom label
• 
  Douglas Andrew loom label
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  Horrockses, Miller & Co display
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  Textilaties display