Round House, Painswick, Gloucestershire

Photograph taken 05 March 2001 © Mr Jack Farley FRPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 133329

This building was originally a wool drying house. The woollen industry played a very important role in Gloucestershire's history. This house is a good example of a type of building once more common in this area.

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Gloucestershire Painswick

Period

Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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The machines to the right of this picture are carding machines. These used spiked drums in which the cotton was rotated. This process aligned the fibres, which were then placed in buckets as lengths or 'slivers'. The slivers were combined on a doubling frame, which is the machine that most of these women are working on.

Round House, Painswick, Gloucestershire

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