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#Keighley was a major textile centre with many mills - cotton, worsted & paper. The 1797 Turkey Mills made the paper for the Indian #Rupee. Sutton, Goose Eye & Bancroft mills converted to housing. #GradeIIListed https://t.co/zTmUwLkqAS
The #Shipley branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born #OTD 1810. One of the largest #worsted manufacturers & contemporary of #TitusSalt he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in #GradeIListed All Souls #Halifax in 1887.