When I left school in the Early 70s
The Textile mills would employ Young people to do the essential Jobs of "Battery Filling" and "Cut Carrying"

What exactly were the skills/duties in these Jobs?
NOTE: Women never did the 2nd Job OK?
And the Former Job is only done in a Museum setting now Why?

Help needed on this one too!

I completed a dissertation a few years ago on the Cotton Mills of Hyde but never came across these terms. They are not in any lists I have so must be Lancashire terms.

I know its a difficult one if you are not conversant

Look at this list well worth a long browse (think this was made for a University sound Archive project?)
http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/ltp/Interviews/Index.htm DG will not Know what the Title means Jenny with reference to Barlick

and It concerns Whittakers Spring Vale Mill Haslingden where I worked just out of School @ 15(small world!)
Its discussed in the section link
Charlie Gowers & Joe Pilling

and there are 3 lengthy transcripts Do a a "wordsearch" on them and they do mention the Jobs in passing
Brought back many memories (and I've saved it to Favourites)
Shame the Tapes are not available to listen to

Most of the accents will be very thick Lancashire so the transcript of the conversations is a real help

Well I found the cut carrier but not the battery filler.

Cut carrier- the cut was the finished length of cloth, on a roll, too heavy for the women I presume.

well done Jenny
And here is a helpful Photo of the Ubiquitious Northrop Loom where do you think the battery is located Jenny?

Lancashire looms had no such device if you can make out the detail in this image

The battery was the bobbin holder. They only do it in museums because there are no working textile mills any more. Helmshore and Styal mills both have working Northrop looms on show in the museums. Down here, they called it an automatic loom!

The job was to put the box of "cops" (Note-trade term for wound bobbins)
With the correct grade and count number in the Holder/rack above the Battery...Inserting them into the Battery magazine was the weavers job and until the Automatic loaders and winders came in with modern machinery(late 60's) The Battery filler job was then changed to a Weft-man Loading "Cheeses" of weft which reduced the Attention need to keep the supply going

Depending on the Count being woven a bobbin could last a Minute or 5 minutes and the Magazine needed constant Monitoring as well as the Other things to do with that loom and 1 weaver could have half a dozen to check at the same time

Where I worked and they had the latest machines with the weft-winders ect 1 weaver had 16 looms to mind
And I looked after 16 looms also to clean ,patrol grease them as well as 3 other sets in the group (48 looms) as well as myother dutie of taking cloth off loom ,cleaning greasing looms at Warp changes (varied daily)
Also brushing up (best job on the Shift!)
Proud to say we had the Best productivity in the whole Mill ...and the number of my group...13
There were about 1500 looms in the waeving shed where I worked Noisy?... 95-100 Decibels at 10 yards And I'd be working 2 ft away from Any Picking stick noise and there'd be several hundred all running in the same area

If you get a chance to see a powerloom in action Its well worth the experience
What I've said here is only part of the Jobs that keep this machine running the weaver is one small part os the Process...

And I'm not counting the Yarn preparation nor Cloth finishing part of the Process