Ian Gibson, from Lancashire County Council, receives the best tour award from Prof Angus Buchanan of the AIA at the mill
BURNLEY'S Queen Street Mill and Textile Museum has won a prestigious award.
It has been named as having the best tour by the Association for Industrial Archaeology.
The museum, Harle Syke, beat off competition from more well-known tourist attractions such as Blackpool Tower.
Prof Marilyn Palmer, chairman of the AIA, said: "Queen Street Mill is a preservation project of the first importance and a most impressive site when the weaving shed is running."
Queen's Street is the world's oldest surviving 19th century steam-powered weaving mill, and attempts to bring history to life with the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Mill.
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