Gurteen's Mill

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Gurteen's mill effectively saved the town when competition from new automated mills in northern England crashed the value of cloth leaving 400 families of hand weavers destitute. the picture shows Caroline the mills steam engine. To fit in the space the flywheel is the other side of the adjacent wall - unusually this engine was never compounded.

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