NAME THAT CHURCH: A church with close links to Broughton Hall
LAST week’s building was correctly identified by Janet Evans and by John Fletcher of Sutton-in-Craven, who described it as the ‘magnificent’ Bancroft Mill at Barnoldswick. Currently closed to visitors because of the coronavirus pandemic, the mill is in normal times a working museum to the industrial age. Bancroft Shed was to have been built in 1914, but was not actually in operation until after the First World War, in 1920. An information board outside the mill explains it was owned by Nutter Bros Ltd, later James Nutter and Sons Ld, and in 1963 was listed as having 822 looms. ...
Source: cravenherald.co.uk