This is a film of the textile company of R Beanland, based at Spring Grove Mills in Huddersfield.  With the use of intertitles, the film gives a detailed account of the factory and of the process of spinning thread.  The intertitles describe each stage of the process, and the film also includes footage of  some of the management of the company. Title – Views Past and Present at Spring Grove Mills Intertitle – Past The factory is shown from opposite sides. Intertitle – The call to work A...

This is a film of the textile company of R Beanland, based at Spring Grove Mills in Huddersfield.  With the use of intertitles, the film gives a detailed account of the factory and of the process of spinning thread.  The intertitles describe each stage of the process, and the film also includes footage of  some of the management of the company. Title – Views Past and Present at Spring Grove Mills Intertitle – Past The factory is shown from opposite sides. Intertitle – The call to work A steam whistle goes off. Intertitle – Starting up A workman oversees a large steam engine. Intertitle – No. 1 Engine. 700 h P Cross compound The machine is seen at work. Intertitle – No.  Engine. 400 h P Cross compound Another machine is seen at work. Intertitle – Alternator and switch board Large belts are shown in action, and there is a steam gauge. Intertitle – Boiler pumps.  Electrically driven This is shown in operation. Intertitle – Boilers two 3’ 0” x 8’ 6” Ilbs pressure A workman is stoking one of the boilers. Intertitle – We also take power from the Yorkshire Electric Power Company.  Ferrybridge Power Station. This is shown. Intertitle – Grid Large steel pylons are shown. Intertitle – Local sub-station This too is shown. Intertitle – Local lines Smaller timber pylons are shown going across fields and by houses. Intertitle – Receiving station at the mill Various electric machines are shown, with electric meters. Intertitle – Tops arriving in the yard.  Unloading and weighing Large sacks are lifted by grappling hooks on a pulley into a building where they are taken to a weighing machine. Intertitle – Set of Drawing, handling 600 Ibs per week These are shown on a machine being unwound and spun onto cones.  Some cones are shown empty. Intertitle – Cone reducing A long line of cones are being unwound. Intertitle – Cone roving This is shown in operation. Intertitle – Cone spinning frame This is shown in operation. Intertitle – Doffing Young women form a long line, and going along the machine, move the cones.  Intertitle – Ring spinning (new style) Women stand working at a machine. Intertitle – Ring twist framing Again, women stand working at a machine. Intertitle – Individual motor drives These are shown. Intertitle – Winding Women are working at machines which spin the thread onto cones. Intertitle – Beaming room This is shown. Title – End of Part One Title – Part Two Intertitle – Slubbing arriving A lorry of ‘Beacon Dyeing Co. Ltd.’ arrives carrying large sacks. Intertitle – Slubbing winding Women work at large winding machines. Intertitle – Reeling Thread is being wound onto a large rotating machine.  A woman takes the thread off. Intertitle – Bundling Using a metal pole, a woman winds the thread into bundles which are placed into a bailing machine.  These bundles are then weighed, packaged, and labelled. Intertitle – Punching A long line of thread is being wound on a winding machine into large bundles which a woman takes off. Intertitle – Combing A woman works at a circular machine which is rotating black thread. Intertitle – Finishing A woman works at a circular machine which is pulling white thread through which it re-winds. Intertitle – Colour matching Men and women are in a room which has lots of drawers.  Here, they are checking colours.  More machines are shown. Two men hold a sample up to the light and make notes. Intertitle – Mixing Another machine is shown. Intertitle – Now let’s go and ‘ave us a dinner.  The canteen kitchen, featuring Miss Crosfield (manageress) and Lizzie (the cook) Women are preparing food in the kitchen. Intertitle – Entering the canteen. Women workers, mainly young, walk past, while some men enter another door. Intertitle – “Talkie” Women are seated at tables in a large canteen where they are drinking tea. Intertitle – Mechanics Shop Workmen are fixing some machines. Intertitle – Joiners’ Shop Men are chiselling and sawing timber. Intertitle – Case-makers Workmen make a wooden case. Intertitle – Roller covering This is shown. Intertitle – A peep at Ings Mill during construction Builders stand by the part completed building next to a pile of bricks, while others are working on the steel structure for the roof. Intertitle – Test Room Various small machines are shown, for testing strength etc., and something gets weighed. Intertitle – Testing for defective spindles A woman walks along a long line of spindles on a machine and peers into a box. Intertitle – A few personalities.  Mr Beardsell. A balding man, seated at a desk, is writing. Intertitle – Mr N T Beardsell A younger man, with moustache, sits writing at a desk. Intertitle – Mr J M Dew Another young man, with moustache, sits sorting some things out at a desk. Intertitle – Mr Whittell A man walks into a room.  He is carrying a package under his arm. Intertitle – Mr Saviour Another man, carrying some pieces of paper, walks into the room.