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From: "Hugh Waterhouse" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SHEFFIELD] Wollen Mills
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:29:52 +0100
References: <366.2e8be07a.3229aefe@aol.com>


This site - http://www.amlwchdata.co.uk/occupations.htm - says:
ROVER - archer or operator of a machine used in cotton mills which prepared
the carded fibre into rolls

and this one http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/q-r.html#R says:
1) Archer 2) Loaded cotton yarn onto bobbins, giving the yarn a twist,
(Roving) after the Carding and Combing processes.

Hugh

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Subject: [ENG-SHEFFIELD] Wollen Mills


> Does anyone know what a "Rover" did in the mills?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Adrienne



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