Picture taken from within the old Tallow Hill (City) Cemetery facing Eastwards towards the grounds of the old House of Industry (Workhouse)

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Picture shows the Tallow Hill Cemetery with a tall memorial in place near to the Eastern end where all the Vaults were located

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My mother used to work for Norman Baker. This is the first photo I have seen of the shop. Thank you to whoever uploaded it.

On J1202091E03 it is just possible to see the two arched roofs behind and to the right of the cathedral. They look to be on the other side of the road from Clare St. right at the end of Talbot Street as it was.

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Look closely, and you'll see the vehicles are all horse drawn, no motor vehicles!

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Taken in the grounds of Lindisfarne House, Barbourne Terrace
SPL

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Taken in the grounds of Lindisfarne House, Barbourne Terrace
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Horsehair fabrics are woven with a cotton warp and horsehair weft across the width of the fabric. The fuzzy/ frayed endings sticking out are an indication that a single Horsehair was used for each weft?

This looks like a spinning machine that produced the bobbins. Horsehair was used only used as a weft using a single horehair for each cross-strand. This spinning machine is therefore likely to be producing Cotton Bobbins that were used for in turn used to manufacture the Cotton Warp (long bits). This Warp was then used on the Loom with the Horsehair as the Weft.
The product was 'horsehair interlining', a hardy/ durable fabric used in Victorian times and later as a 'stiffening' material for garments as well as a hard-wearing fabric for say, seat covering.

I have just come across this photo in the book 'A Tale of Two Worcesters' by Karen M. Pierson (1998) . No date for the photo, but the caption reads 'Lea & Perrins lift for packed cases'. Photo credit: Brian Keogh and Lea & Perrins. The book says that Brian Keogh was a retired Lea & Perrins accountant, some time chair of Worcestershire's Industrial Archaeology and Local History Society as well as volunteering several days a week as Lea & Perrins historian.