FIRST spinning Jenny In Bradford - Bradford, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 47.804 W 001° 44.678
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This first Spinning Jenny in Bradford was installed in the loft of this historic house built in 1643.
Waymark Code: WMHTMR
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/13/2013
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A blue plaque on the wall has some information about the building's history.
THE
PAPER HALL
1643
WILLIAM ROOKES BUILT THIS HOUSE
DURING THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR.
JAMES GARNETT INSTALLED HERE
THE FIRST SPINNING JENNY
IN BRADFORD DURING THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
The
Spinning Jenny mentioned on the plaque was a multi-thread spinning frame invented in 1764. Bradford was later to become a major textile manufacturing town known as the 'wool capital of the world'.
This
website claims that it was this FIRST Spinning Jenny that triggered this industrial development.
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