Bradford Industrial Museum

Moorside Road
Eccleshill
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD2 3HP
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.bradfordmuseums.org

E-mail

neil.hinchliffe@bradford.gov.uk

Telephone

01274 435900

Fax

01274 636362

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Original Victorian worsted spinning mill complex built in 1875, now used to recreate life in Bradford at the turn of the 19th century.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am - 4pm
Closed Mondays

Closed Mon except for Bank Holidays

 Admission charges

FREE admission

The Worsted Collection at Bradford Industrial Museum is a Designated Collection of national importance.

This collection clearly demonstrates Bradford’s unique and internationally significant role in the worsted industry. Worsted played an important part in the industrialisation of England, and the development and mechanisation of the wool textile industry. Moorside Mills, the site of the museum and an original spinning mill, is full of machinery which once converted raw wool into the world's best worsted cloth. The collections illustrate the process of making worsted from fleece to completed clothing, including spinning, looms, and combing.

Collection details

Social History, Science and Technology, Music, Land Transport, Fine Art, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives, Archaeology

Key artists and exhibits

  • Designated Collection
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Bradford's Industrial Revolution

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=198

A resource for studying the Victorians, the Industrial Revolution, and the history of Bradford, featuring The Coat of Many Cultures
a large textile work of art inspired by Bradford's history and cultural diversity.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Discovering Print at Bradford Industrial Museum

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=120

Examples of work of past and present printmakers with a glossary of techniques

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

The Grand Trunk Road - Behind the Scenes

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=323

The Grand Trunk Road is one of the longest and most historic trade and military routes in the Indian subcontinent. The road is almost 1,500 miles long and runs from Calcutta in India, across Pakistan, all the way to Kabul in Afghanistan. This resource has brilliant audio and video clips and images recording a journey along the road.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

The Grand Trunk Road - Decorated Trucks in India and Pakistan

One of the most famous sights on the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan is that of the country’s elaborately decorated trucks, buses and motorised rickshaws. This resource has brilliant video, audio and images about the workshops and their craftsmen that are dotted along the road where these trucks are repaired and decorated.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

The Grand Trunk Road - Recording Oral History Interviews

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=383

Oral history is the recording of people's memories of their own lives. This resource has audio stories of the British Raj, the 1947 Partition of India, and the migration from the subcontinent to British towns and cities - in people's own words.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.

Thornbury Primary's Creative Curriculum and the Grand Trunk Road

http://www.mylearning.org/overview.asp?journeyid=380

A resource based on exhibitions about the Grand Trunk Road of India and Pakistan showing how exhibitions can be used to support a whole school creative curriculum.

Publisher

  • This resource was produced as part of the MLA-funded My Learning project.
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