Tissage et usine d'apprêt des étoffes de laine Auguste Rocheux, puis Louis-Edmond Join-Lambert, puis Samson Lepesqueur, puis Gasse et Canthelou.

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History

This factory was built in four phases, in 1843, 1860, 1882 and 1918, each corresponding both to a period of business expansion, technological renewal and change of ownership. The first workshops built to the east rise over two, three or four storeys with a roof space storey. When the factory was purchased in 1854 by Louis Edmond Join-Lambert, the finishing workshops were equipped with two steam engines of 20 and 25 horsepower. In 1882, the establishment was taken over by Samson Lepesqueur and enlarged with a ground-floor workshop and metal roof structure built to the south. In 1918, the company Gasse et Canthelou, which had become owner of the factory, had a shed workshop built to the west. The factory then formed an island of 6000 m² served by a long central courtyard around which work was organized. The oldest workshops were assigned to operations preparatory to weaving, fulling and shearing. The south workshop housed sizing and decatizing, the west workshop mechanical weaving. Around 1920, the factory employed 300 workers. Since its closure in 1967, part of the buildings has been occupied by various companies. The factory was acquired by the commune in 2005.