The collection

Selected films

• Bradford Mela
• Dale Days
• Dewsbury Blanket Mills
• Harrogate, Boardroom of the North
• Queen Victoria visits Sheffield
• Scenes from the Ripon Highland Sports
• St George's Crypt

Contact and access

Dewsbury Blanket Mills Date: 1932 Film-maker / Comissioner: Wormald & Walker Blanket Mills Item / Catalogue No.: 114 Original Format: 35mm niterate Viewing Format: VHS, Beta SP Sound / Silent: silent B&W / Colour: black & white Copyright: contact the Archive for further details

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This is a promotional film by Wormald & Walker Blanket Mills charting the processes of the textile factory from the arrival of the raw yarns to the delivery of the finished blankets. This film is part of the Yorkshire Film Archive's collection and is one of many films showing textile manufacturing and other key industries in the region.

See also: film of a textile mill Milnrow in the North; 'West, Milnrow and Newhey Gazette' (1913) held in the North West Film Archive