John Jubb
of Silver Street, then Soho Works, Meadow Lane, Hunslet, Leeds
Textile machinery maker and millwright.
In the 1780s John Marshall started to weave flax at Scotland Mill (Leeds) using four looms by John Jubb, but found them unreliable due to the 'badness of the workmanship'.[1]
1805 'WORSTED MACHINERY. To be SOLD, ONE SPINNING JENNY, of Sixty Spindles, complete, little worse for Wear. One Double Spinning Mill Frame, containing Forty-eight Spindles, complete, quite new. One Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, with all Articles belonging thereto, for the same Number of Spindles, but not quite finished. One Roving Frame, complete, quite new. One Fluting, and One Dividing Engine, both complete. Two Laths, complete, no worse for Wear. One Vice, and sundry other Articles, suitable for Spinners.
N. B. The above Machinery is equally suitable for Spinning Flax or Tow. To be seen in a Room adjoining the Warehouses of Smithson, Oates and Richie, in Meadow Lane. For Particulars apply to Mr. John Jubb, Machine-Maker, in Meadow-Lane aforesaid, who is authorised to dispose of the same.'[2]
See here for more information, photos and map.[3]