News > Pecket Well Mill featured on newly unveiled Hebden Bridge Sundial Sculpture

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The one-tonne sculpture of a "fustian knife" was unveiled on the Summer Solstice by the Mayor of Calderdale, Cllr. Conrad Winterburn and the Mayor of Hebden Royd, Cllr. Susan Press.

Fustian knives were used in the manufacture of corduroy, a fabric for which Hebden Bridge was known throughout the world.

This large scale replica of a Fustian knife points directly north towards Nutclough Mill, former home of Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society Ltd, founded in 1870. Pecket Well mill was the last mill in Britain to manufacture corduroy fustian cloth ( 1858 – 1989 ).

The sculpture was developed jointly by the Traffic Review Steering Group, Council Officers and local sculptor / artist, Mike Williams. It is cast from bronze in a Sheffield foundry and stainless steel fabricated by a firm in Halifax.

 

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