ABSTRACT
We alluded in the first chapter to Mr. Cartwright’s Mill at Rawfolds, Liversedge, and to Mr. John Jackson’s cropping shop at the top of Quilley Lane, in the same township. These cropping shops, which were chiefly places of small pretensions, were pretty numerous in the Spen Valley and in the intervening districts, up to Leeds on one side and Halifax and Huddersfield on the other, about 1810-11, when Cart wright began to experiment in finishing cloth by machinery at his water power mill at Rawfolds.
