-Its a carding Machine for Beaumont Mills In the Glen.. these 2 were the owners
-"Carding is the process of raw materials to prepare them for Yarn"
- Really interesting
- Raw wool is fed onto a series of rollers to make the fibres long, Fibres are straightened out when they come off the rollers and are in the form like cotton batting. The large drum will then process the "batting" and turn it into soft yarn. Yarn is then twisted to give it strength..Thank god Gordie Preston gave really good Descriptions on his pictures
-They wear a great pair like them both
-The current owner of the mill was kind enough to give a tour once of his home part of the mill which does have some other interesting relics from the days of the yarn mill.
- Gord Graham. I remember him well...a lovely man
- I worked for Sam's son Doug for a few years. Nice guy.
-I washed socks there for a while, I still can't separate the colours from the whites. I ruined a whole batch because I mixed red socks with white socks and they came out pink. Man was Sam ever pissed at me, but nobody told me to separate them.
-Doug got his hand caught in that machine when he was 15 still has the scars and one finger that is half the size of a normal finger
- Ouch!
- Sam Penrice was my Grandpa. We actually lived in the Beaumont Mill back in the 80’s our new house wasn’t ready and we needed a place to stay for 6 months!!!
- Often wondered how many were employed there they had lots of sewing machines
-We were just talking about Gord and Sam the other day. Gord Graham was June Cook and Marie Beaumont brother. Uncle to Myrna Cook.
-Myrna & I use to stamp socks in her Grandma Graham’s garage during the summer. The socks were 2nds, (slightly flawed) & of course we made a little money. We then went door to door (only people we knew) selling them. People absolutely loved them. That was a long time ago during the good old days. Lol
- My Dads best friend and my Godfather—loved him ❤️
- I worked for both of them . My first job. Very nice people . Had a lot of fun there.
- I also worked for them. My first job as well. We did have a lot of fun there. And we were treated very well as employees.
-"Carding is the process of raw materials to prepare them for Yarn"
- Really interesting
- Raw wool is fed onto a series of rollers to make the fibres long, Fibres are straightened out when they come off the rollers and are in the form like cotton batting. The large drum will then process the "batting" and turn it into soft yarn. Yarn is then twisted to give it strength..Thank god Gordie Preston gave really good Descriptions on his pictures
-They wear a great pair like them both
-The current owner of the mill was kind enough to give a tour once of his home part of the mill which does have some other interesting relics from the days of the yarn mill.
- Gord Graham. I remember him well...a lovely man
- I worked for Sam's son Doug for a few years. Nice guy.
-I washed socks there for a while, I still can't separate the colours from the whites. I ruined a whole batch because I mixed red socks with white socks and they came out pink. Man was Sam ever pissed at me, but nobody told me to separate them.
-Doug got his hand caught in that machine when he was 15 still has the scars and one finger that is half the size of a normal finger
- Ouch!
- Sam Penrice was my Grandpa. We actually lived in the Beaumont Mill back in the 80’s our new house wasn’t ready and we needed a place to stay for 6 months!!!
- Often wondered how many were employed there they had lots of sewing machines
-We were just talking about Gord and Sam the other day. Gord Graham was June Cook and Marie Beaumont brother. Uncle to Myrna Cook.
-Myrna & I use to stamp socks in her Grandma Graham’s garage during the summer. The socks were 2nds, (slightly flawed) & of course we made a little money. We then went door to door (only people we knew) selling them. People absolutely loved them. That was a long time ago during the good old days. Lol
- My Dads best friend and my Godfather—loved him ❤️
- I worked for both of them . My first job. Very nice people . Had a lot of fun there.
- I also worked for them. My first job as well. We did have a lot of fun there. And we were treated very well as employees.
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