Walmersley
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Walmersley is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
Walmersley Post Office
John Kay (flying shuttle)
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John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, who built the
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…Kay a blacksmith with a smithy at Baldingstone. Richard was married to Alice Kay, from Sheephey, Shuttleworth whose brother Robert was the father of John Kay, the inventor of the flying shuttle…
Portrait, said to be of John Kay in the 1750s, but probably of his son, "Frenchman" John Kay.
Flying shuttle showing metal capped ends, wheels, and a pirn of weft thread
Reed structure: A: wires or dents B: wooden ribs C: tarred cord
John Kay memorial, Bury