£348,000 grant to preserve Tone Works, in Wellington | Somerset County Gazette
A UNIQUE 225-year-old textile site in Wellington has been awarded a £348,420 grant by Historic England as part of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. Tone Works is the well-preserved cloth finishing works of the Fox Brothers textile company, where the final stages in the production of fabrics such as serge were carried out. Fox Bothers was founded by Thomas Fox in 1796 and grew to dominate the textile industry in the South West, with Tone Works completing the finishing stages on cloth sent from across the country. When the site closed in 2000, most of its traditional textile wo...