Key Words :- woollen manufacture cotton spinning cloth hall

Address :- Spen Lane, Gomersal, West Yorkshire, BD19 4PQ
Grid Ref :- SE 20604 25979
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.729805 , Long -1.689179
Local Authority :- Kirklees Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site demolished or no longer extant
Site Condition :- Site redeveloped to residential housing
Site Dates :- 1775 - 2000s

Description and History of Site:-
Covering a large site, from the 1850s the centre of operations of Thomas Burnley & Sons. Now redeveloped with housing.
Gomersal Cloth Hall, built in 1775, had failed by 1786 in the face of opposition from Leeds merchants. It was converted to a factory, for cotton-spinning and later woollen cloth manufacturing. Away from any water-power, it was an early example of a steam-driven textile mill. - A major rebuilding and extension occurred in 1913. - Gill Cookson-10/01/2015

Further Reading and References:-
G & N A Cookson, Gomersal: a Window on the Past (1992), 114-17.
C. Giles and I. H. Goodall, Yorkshire Textile Mills, 1770-1930 (1992), 223

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Contributor :- Gill Cookson - 10 January 2015
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