This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning wool until 1916. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 ...

This spinning machine spins 96 strands of yarn at once. It was one of many similar machines installed in mills in Derbyshire and Lancashire and powered by waterwheels, so they were called Water ...