Extension to the Royal Technical Institute Spinning & Weaving Department

SALFORD - Spinning and weaving departments have been established at the Royal Technical Institute, Peel Park, Salford, and their formal opening took place on Friday. The departments complete the scheme of the promoters of the Institute. The two rooms, one for spinning and one for weaving machinery, are each 80 feet by 50 feet. The spinning room is on the ground floor and the weaving shed, which has a series of roof north lights, on the first floor. There is a separate steam engine in each room, the power being supplied from the original Galloway boilers. The heating and ventilating are arranged for by an extension of the general system of the Institution on the Smead Blackman principle. The machinery in the spinning room is the gift of Messrs Dobson and Barlow, and represents a value of about £1,500. Messrs Butterworth and Dickinson, of Burnley, have given a good portion of the weaving machinery, valued at several hundred pounds. [Building News 27 October 1899 Page 546]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 9 April 1898 Page 3 (Contracts)
Reference    Building News 27 October 1899 Page 546