Wikipedia:GLAM/Queen Street Mill Museum

As of 5 March 2013, Andy Mabbett is Wikipedian in Residence at Queen Street Mill Museum, which is under the auspices of Lancashire County Council.

Participants
* = new editors



Event
A successful backstage pass tour and editathon was held at the museum on 4 May 2013. A second event was held on 10 May 2014.

Requested
Please add your suggestions and requests!


 * Machinery makers
 * Blakes pumps
 * Pemberton & Son (aka Pemberton Brothers?)
 * Harding & Todd
 * British Northrop (or improve Northrop Loom); see, James Henry Northrop
 * Burnley Ironworks
 * James Proctor Ltd LT
 * Textile makers
 * Horrockses, Miller & Co (see John Horrocks (politician))
 * Jones Textilaties
 * Other
 * Cotton industry in Lancashire (to be split from Cotton industry and developed)
 * Cotton Manufacturing Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1934
 * Royce generator
 * Kings Mill
 * Red links in Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
 * Red links in Weaving shed
 * All other links in Weaving shed to be followed, examined and corrected/rewritten see for example Warp weft and shuttle.

To expand

 * Machinery makers
 * Butterworth and Dickinson
 * Other
 * William Linton (artist)
 * Flued boiler - also add refs

Created

 * Beamer (occupation)
 * Custom House, Lancaster
 * Reginald Aspinwall
 * Dobby (cloth)
 * William Roberts & Co of Burnley
 * Textile sizing machine
 * Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 - Has been promoted to good article! Woohoo!
 * Bancroft Mill
 * More looms
 * Kissing the shuttle
 * Piece-rate list‎
 * Parsley Peel
 * Harle Syke Mill
 * Tinker, Shenton & Co
 * Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills
 * T. Wildman & Sons

Improved

 * Robert Rawlinson
 * Hattersley loom
 * Clitheroe Castle

Did you know?

 * Kissing the shuttle was mentioned on the main page as part of the Bancroft Shed item.

Nomination: Did you know nominations/Steaming process in Lancashire cotton mills

Main

 * Commons:Category:Lancashire
 * Category:Textile mills in Lancashire
 * Category:Textile mills in the United Kingdom

Commons

 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill boilers
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill -500hp Engine 'Peace'
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Green's Economiser
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill -Videos
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Wikipedians at Backstage Pass 4 May 2013
 * Commons:Category:Queen Street Mill - Wikipedians at Backstage Pass 10 May 2014
 * Commons:Category:Tinker, Shenton & Co

Local

 * WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria
 * List of mills in Lancashire
 * List of museums in Lancashire

Editing

 * Introduction
 * Your first article
 * Cheatsheet (Cheatsheet also available as a PDF)
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual for your PC or e-reader

Gallery


Images and video taken during the project