Queen Wilhelmina’s loom
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The Museum Factory has a loom on loan, the ironwork of which was made at Tattersall-Holdsworth. This loom was donated at the end of the 19th century to then Princess Wilhelmina, who kept it for years.
The loom was presented to her in September 1895, when she was visiting Enschede. The gift came from the students of the Handelsschool in Enschede and was made by Tattersall & Holdsworth, a machine factory in Enschede. Wilhelmina took the loom to The Hague, where it was kept for a long time in the Royal Archives. In 2009, the royal family made the loom available for presentation in TwentseWelle, now called De MuseumFabriek.
Behind the old police station on a square with tall trees was also the Twentsche Industry and Trade School, built in 1864. Once the pride of the city and the first secondary school in the Netherlands.
The construction costs were raised by the various Twente municipalities and the state with the goodwill of King William III. When the government did not want to contribute to the expansion, the municipality of Enschede took over the school. The name was changed to the Dutch School for Industry and Trade. The school later gave rise to the Lyceum, the HBS, the Higher Trade School and the Higher Textile School. In 1916, the school building was expanded with the already demolished building with the famous tower on the corner of Beltstraat and C.F. Klaarstraat. The old monumental part with the stepped gables was demolished in 1959.