Old Bleach Linen mill Randalstown, County Antrim Northern Ireland
The Old Bleach company was started by a Quaker called Charles J Webb in 1864, and started out using the age old method of linen production, where the flax was hand pulled, stacked and left to dry, before being processed to separate the seeds and core to leave the fibres. The resulting woven fabric was “bleached” by laying out in the open air, and this old method of bleaching continued to be used by the company during its long history. By the 1930’s the company was a large textile manufacturer employing a workforce of over 1000 people, using the nearby railway to help export their textiles and linens all over the world.
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