Trowbridge Museum

It remained there until July 1990, when the developers of The Shires Shopping Centre allowed it to take over the first floor of the Home Mills building.

The museum closed to the public in June 2018 and reopened in May 2021 after renovation and expansion to include a second floor, doubling its size, and the addition of a lift to improve access.

[2] The 2012 exhibition Rare Machinery[3] presented the story of woollen cloth production in Trowbridge from its domestic beginnings through to the mechanisation of the process.

As well as a complete Spinning Jenny – one of only five examples left in the world – the museum's displays included a fulling machine patented by Trowbridge engineer, John Dyer, in 1833.

The machine contains numerous "handles" of teazles (this was the name for the frames into which the teazles were fixed) which were dried out in the Handle House which can be found near the town bridge and Blind House, and is almost as rare as the Spinning Jenny.