Twice a day the 1904 mule produces high quality woollen yarn that is used in commercial blanket production, filling the room with the sights and sounds of a traditional, working textile mill.

The Spinning Mule, on Nelson Square, was closed on June 27 to allow the £446,000 works to take place. ... The five new members of staff now brings the number of people working at the pub to 40.

This Victorian spinning mule, with 300 spindles to twist fibres into yarn, would once have filled some of the region's turn-of-the-century textile mills with a distinctive cacophony of noise.

Wetherspoons' Spinning Mule opened its doors on Nelson Square after it closed its door last month. It has a new modern look and a beer garden, as well as new carpet, wooden tables and chairs and ...

The spinning mule is widely believed to have gotten its name because it’s a hybrid of the jenny and the water frame, much like a mule is a hybrid of a horse and a donkey.