Our Next Steaming

On Steaming Days, you can see the 600hp cross-compound engine in operation. Built by William Roberts and Sons of Nelson, Lancs, in 1920. In the weaving area we have three looms, one of which we use to weave our souvenir tea-towels.

Also on display is a large collection of artefacts from the weaving industry which brought so much employment to the region. We have the original Lancashire boiler – now used as our water supply – and a Cornish boiler, which we now use on Steaming Days. In a separate building we have a Smith and Eastwood Tandem-Compound engine, known as the Bradley Engine.

This ran Peter Green’s Mill in Cross Lane in Bradley, near Skipton, until 1978. The engine was moved to our site in pieces early this century and was rebuilt by the volunteers. It ran again for the first time on site in 2017, after taking ten years to reassemble and commission.