Spinning jenny spinning jenny. It started the factory system. The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves. He was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, around 1720. Blackburn was a town with a population of about 5,000, known for the production of "Blackburn greys," cloths of linen warp and cotton weft initially imported from India. They were usually sent to London to be printed. At the time, cotton production could not keep up with demand of the textile industry, and Hargreaves spent some time considering how to improve the process. The flying shuttle (John Kay 1733) had increased yarn demand by the weavers
Spinning House attacked her moral character but nevertheless prompted public debate about the legitimacy of such arrests. The former site of the Spinning House is marked by a blue plaque. Spinning House The Spinning House, also known as the Cambridge House of Correction and Hobson's Bridewell, was a workhouse and prison built in Cambridge in the 1600s and demolished in 1901. In the Victorian era it held local women suspected by Proctors of having a corrupting influence on the male student population, until this power was removed by Act of Parliament in 1893. This removal followed the high-profile case of 17-year-old Daisy