Sunny Bank Mills
Sunny Bank Mills is a former textile mill, which specialised in worsted cloth, set in 10 acres of land located on Town Street, Farsley, Leeds, England. Since 2010, it has been developed as a business and artistic community, with an exhibitions gallery selling fine art by local artists; a textile and local history archive; shops, cafés, artist studios; as well as outdoor spaces. It is run by the Gaunt family who took ownership in 1943. The archive was awarded Archive Community Accreditation by West Yorkshire Archive Service in January 2021. History In 1820, a group of local clothiers set up a co-operative venture in Farsley to share the cost of rent. They built a woollen scribbling and fulling mill, known as The Farsley Club Mill. By 1839, the mill was known as Sunny Bank Mills and run by the firm of Roberts, Ross & Co. In 1842, the mill was one of several local mills shut down temporarily by rioters. In 1881, the mill was sold to Edwin Woodhouse for £9,540, comprising two mills, weaving sheds, outbuildings, several houses, three reservoirs and land. Woodhouse had worked his way up as an apprentice to a woollen manufacturer, and later a travelling