Open space with 'the last loom', Kirkham
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Open space with 'the last loom', Kirkham
Image: © Christine Johnstone Taken: 5 Oct 2015
Inside the plastic shelter is the last textile loom to work in Kirkham. the first looms ran in about 1846 and this, the last one, stopped in 2003.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.782727
Longitude
-2.877769