Back in April 1864 the six-year-old John Wakefield planted the tree on Lower Tenter Fell where, for centuries, locally made cloth had been dried on tenter frames. |
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On one town plan dating to 1610, an area north-west of the mill was known as Tenter Bank, and tenter frames were used for stretching cloth after it had been fulled and dyed. |
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There would be a tenter yard outside the fulling mill where the cloth was stretched on frames. |
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Their findings suggest higher nitrate levels in the drinking water of smaller water systems that typically serve Latino and tenter communities. |
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While the number of children working in spinning as tenters did decline, more were employed in weaving because weavers were expected to tenter extra looms. |
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What was a tenter and its associated tenterhooks designed to hold? |
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The Roman cemetery of West Tenter Street, London, shows the relatively even part representation typical of undisturbed single primary inhumations. |
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