Flax Mills are mills concerned with the manufacture of flax. The earliest mills were ones for spinning yarn for the linen industry. A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ... Binomial name Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus. ... Spinning refers to several activities: For the fabrication of thread, see Spinning (textiles). ... Yarn Spools of thread Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, crewel embroidery and ropemaking. ... Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ...

John Kendrew (an optician) and Thomas Porthouse (a clockmaker), both of Darlington developed the process from Richard Arkwright's water frame, and patented it in 1787. The first machine was set up in Low Mill on the River Skerne at Darlington, which Kendrew used to grind glass. They then each set up a mill of their own, Kendrew near Houghton (presumably Houghton le Spring) and Porthouse near Coatham, both on the same river.^[1] An optician is an individual who makes and adjusts optical aids. ... A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs clocks. ... Darlington, including the town clock. ... Richard Arkwright Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an Englishman credited with the spinning frame — later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power. ... The water frame is an extension of the spinning frame; both of which are credited to Richard Arkwright. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention. ... Year 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The River Skerne is a tributary of the River Tees it flows through County Durham in England. ... Statistics Population: Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: NZ355475 Administration District: City of Sunderland Metropolitan county: Tyne and Wear Region: North East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Tyne and Wear Historic county: County Durham Services Police force: Northumbria Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North... Coatham is a place in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. ...

They also granted licences, enabling others to build mills, including in northeast Scotland, where early mills included those at Douglastown in Kinnettles, Bervie, Dundee.^[2] Others were built at Leeds. Matthew Murray moved from Darlington to set up a mill at Adel near Leeds, where Murray built an improved spinning machine for John Marshall. In 1791, Marshall built another mill at Holbeck in Leeds. Murray went on to became a noted textile engineer, as a partner in Fenton, Murray, and Wood.^[3] Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic)1 Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II... For other uses, see Dundee (disambiguation). ... Leeds is a major city in West Yorkshire, England. ... Matthew Murray was a steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive, the twin cylinder The Salamanca in 1812. ... The name Adel (le) may refer to: Adel, Leeds, in England Adel, Georgia Adel, Iowa Adel, Oregon The Adel district of Baghdad. ... John Marshall (1765 - 1845) was a British businessman and politician. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Holbeck is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, through which passes the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ...

Ditherington Flax Mill at Shrewsbury was built by Marshall and Benyons of Leeds in 1797 and was the first iron-framed textile mill anywhere.^[4] Section of the rear of the main part of the Flaxmill Ditherington Flaxmill at Ditherington, a suburb of Shrewsbury is the oldest iron framed building in the world. ... Shrewsbury (pronounced either or ) is a town of 70,560 inhabitants [1] in Shropshire, England. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The cotton mill is a type of factory that was created to house spinning and weaving machinery. ...

References

1. ^ A. J. Wardey, The linen trade: ancient and modern (1864; repr. 1967), 690-92
2. ^ Wardey, 692 and passim.
3. ^ W. English, The Textile Industry (Longmans, London 1969), 158-60.
4. ^ A. W. Skempton and H. R. Johnson, 'The First Iron Frames' Archiectural Review (March 1962); repr. in R. J. M. Sutherland, Structral Iron 1750-1850 (Ashgate, Aldershot 1997), 25-36.