EPW041285 ENGLAND (1933). Cloth laid out on the racks at Crawley Blanket Mill, Crawley, 1933

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Title [EPW041285] Cloth laid out on the racks at Crawley Blanket Mill, Crawley, 1933
Reference EPW041285
Date May-1933
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Place name CRAWLEY
Parish CRAWLEY
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 433832, 211683
Longitude / Latitude -1.5092950310081, 51.802316966721
National Grid Reference SP338117

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Damp blankets drying on tent frames

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 06:13:54 PM
River Windrush

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 06:12:30 PM

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 06:05:26 PM
Crawley Bridge- grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 253581 Bridge. Probably late C18. Stone ashlar. 3-arch bridge.

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 06:03:13 PM
Crawley Mill- Building over the river is Grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 253586 located at Dry Lane, Crawley, Oxfordshire OX8 5TL. Water Mill, now commercial premises. C18. Mill spans mill stream.

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 05:58:46 PM

User Comment Contributions

Crawley Mill on the River Windrush was part of the Witney area's former blanket-making industry. It has a mill stream and was originally water-powered but was later converted to steam power. It is now an industrial estate.



Crawley Mill is where the blankets used to be washed, died and had the pile raised on them before shipping back to the main factory in Witney for finishing and wrapping.



Tenterers racked their lengths of damp blanket cloth out to dry and stretch on the tent frames –stockfulls - and would have to run out if rain threatened, so living their lives on-tenterhooks. The valley of the Windrush was decorated with rows and rows of Blanket tentering over generations.



The oldest part of the mill that straddles the river is grade 2 listed. The rest of the mill estate comprises several buildings that are now mainly workshops and storage. In addition, there are several outside fenced yards that is mostly used for outside storage although a stonemason occupies one of them.

totoro
Monday 10th of March 2014 05:52:18 PM