Opening times
| Mar & Nov | Apr & Oct | May-Sep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | CLOSED* | CLOSED* | CLOSED* |
| Tue | 12 - 4pm | 12 - 5pm | 12 - 5pm |
| Wed | 12 - 4pm | 12 - 5pm | 12 - 5pm |
| Thur | 12 - 4pm | 12 - 5pm | 12 - 5pm |
| Fri | CLOSED | 12 - 5pm | 12 - 5pm |
| Sat | CLOSED | CLOSED | 12 - 5pm |
| Sun | CLOSED* | CLOSED* | CLOSED* |
* Open 12 – 5pm on Sunday and Monday
on Bank Holiday weekends (Easter, May and August).
Engine in steam on weekdays and Saturdays (see above opening hours).
Limited Sunday steaming please phone for details.
We suggest you allow at least 1.5 hours for your visit.
Disabled Access
Due to the historic nature of the building some emergency exit routes require the use of a flight of stairs.
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum is fully accessible to disabled users but numbers of people who would require the assistance of a staff member to evacuate the building in an emergency may need to be restricted in certain parts of the building.
Please call the museum or email us if you have any concerns or would like to know more.
Admission Charges
Save money with our Xplorer multi-pass tickets
| Adults | £ 3.00 |
|---|---|
| Concessions | £ 2.00 |
| Accompanied Children | FREE |
| Burnley Residents | FREE |
Facilities
- Ample free parking
- Gift shop
- Café serving snacks and light refreshments
- Toilets including disabled and baby change facilities
- Full access for disabled users
- Visitors with guide dogs welcome
- Family events and activities
Contact the museum
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Harle Syke, Burnley, BB10 2HX.
Tel: (+44) 01282 412555
Fax: (+44) 01282 430220
Our venues
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
People
The Queen Street Manufacturing Company was established in 1894 and comprised of local men and women from Briercliffe. The first board of Directors was listed as Thomas Pickles (foreman), John Nuttall (glazer), George Lane (builder), William Kippax (weaver), Whitaker Whitaker (weaver), Brierley Edmondson (weaver), John Taylor (weaver), and James Corrin (Headmaster, Haggate School) who became the first company secretary.
Briercliffe was a tight knit community, and many of the directors of Queen Street Mill, were also members of the Briercliffe Brass Band. To mark the opening of the mill in 1895 Reverend Harrison and Edmund Atkinson (a tackler and member of the Brass Band) climbed to the top of the chimney where the latter played a cornet solo.
The £20,000 which it cost to build the mill was raised by the selling of 4000 £5 shares. Many of those who became mill workers were share holders and passed the shares down through the generations of their family. When the mill closed in 1982, many of those who worked there were related to the original mill workers.