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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).

Please telephone for details of Steaming Sundays

We suggest you allow at least 1.5 hours for your visit.

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

The worlds only surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill. Bringing steam powered weaving to life.

On the outskirts of Burnley - a town once dominated by the textile industry, lies Harle Syke, the home of Queen Street Mill, the last surviving, operational steam powered weaving mill in the world. Owned by a workers co-operative “The Queen Street Manufacturing Company” the mill is a time capsule of the late Victorian age, which produced cloth using Victorian steam driven power looms until its closure in 1982.

Discover the story of cotton cloth production. Whether you're interested in local or social history, textiles and textile machinery or just looking for an afternoon out with a difference, the sights, sounds and smells of Queen Street Mill brings the textile industry vividly to life!

Explore the museum:

queen street mill textile museum chimney

Architecture

Like most mills in Burnley, Queen Street Mill specialised in producing plain cotton calico known as 'grey cloth'. The architecture of the mill was designed to allow this process to be carried out as efficiently as possible.

queen street mill textile museum peace engine

Collections

The Museum holds a collection of machinery and other items connected to the textile industry which combined with that of sister museum Helmshore Mills Textile Museum is designated as being of national importance.

queen street mill textile museum exterior

Grounds

Harle Syke became one of the most important weaving villages in Victorian Lancashire and is now a conservation area displaying industrial architecture which has seen little change in the last 100 years.

Queen Street Mill museum interior boiler

Interior

Because the mill was owned by a co-operative it survives today with a lot of its original machinery.

queen street mill textile museum worker

People

The Queen Street Manufacturing Company was established in 1894 and comprised of local men and women from Briercliffe.

Schools

Queen Street Mills museuum mill worker

Activities for schools

Information for teachers. Find out about the wealth of educational activities available at this location


Queen Street Mill Textile Museum gallery