Mills in Dukinfield
| Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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| Albert | George Woodhouse | 53°28′00″N 2°05′18″W / 53.4666°N 2.0883°W / 53.4666; -2.0883 ("Albert ") | 1873 | 1947 | 59 |
| Notes: Built by the Newton moor Spinning Co. in 1873-4, to plans by George Woodhouse. It was powered by a quadruple expansion engine by Adamson. It contained 48,000 spindles, but by 1911, it had 57,000 spindles. In 1920, it and its sister mill were taken over by Astley Mill Co Ltd a company running well over 200,000 spindles. Hard times and the mill stopped spinning in 1932. | |||||
| Albion Mills see Oxford Road Mill Park Mill |
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| Alma Mill see Waterside Mill |
53°28′58″N 2°05′48″W / 53.4827°N 2.0966°W / 53.4827; -2.0966 ("Alma Mill see Waterside Mill") |
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| Aqueduct Mill /Dukinfield Mill | SJ 935984 53°28′56″N 2°05′56″W / 53.4823°N 2.0989°W / 53.4823; -2.0989 ("Aqueduct Mill /Dukinfield Mill ") | ||||
| Notes: The land between the Garforth's Private Branch Canal off the Peak Forest Canal and the River Tame, was sold to John Stanley an ironmaster for an ironworks. He speculatively built two cotton mills in 1841 on surplus land. Dukinfield mill was small, with four storeys running 13584 spindles. In 1893 the mill changed its name to Aqueduct Mill, being leased by the cotton doubling firm of James Cooper & Sons. Doubling continued until around 1940. The mill was subsequently demolished. | |||||
| Astley Mill | Stott& Sons | 53°28′10″N 2°05′20″W / 53.4695°N 2.0890°W / 53.4695; -2.0890 ("Astley Mill ") | 1883 | 1935 | 48 |
| Notes: Built on share capital of 100,000 during 1883, by Aaron Haughton contractors to Stott and Son design. It was four storeys. The steam engine was a 1300 IHP, horizontal cross compound with a seven-foot stroke. It powered a 34 feet (10 m) flywheel that ran 32 ropes. The engines were christened Beatrice and Constance.. It had 35 pairs of mules built by Taylor, Laing & Co of Stalybridge. It spun twist and weft. Opening and scutching machines were by the same firm, but the 70 double carding engines were by Asa Lees & Co. It was recapitalised in the 1920s and took over the Albert and Victoria Mills, thus had control of over 200,000 spindles. It went into liquidation in 1931, and was demolished in 1935 and the site used for housing. | |||||
| Astley Street Mill see Stanley Wood Mill |
53°28′27″N 2°06′07″W / 53.4743°N 2.1020°W / 53.4743; -2.1020 ("Astley Street Mill see Stanley Wood Mill"), |
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| Barrack Mill see Dukinfield New Mill |
53°29′03″N 2°05′25″W / 53.4841°N 2.0903°W / 53.4841; -2.0903 ("Barrack Mill see Dukinfield New Mill") |
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| Barn Meadow Mill | Robert Ashton | 53°28′11″N 2°06′09″W / 53.4697°N 2.1025°W / 53.4697; -2.1025 ("Barn Meadow Mill ") | 1834 | 1985 | 50 |
| Notes: Built about 1835, it was the first purpose built combined mill in Dukinfield. Run by Robert Asahton until 1857 it was then leased to Rowbottoms until 1864, then Messrs Woolnough & Kendal. | |||||
| Bow Mill see Dukinfield New Mill |
53°29′03″N 2°05′25″W / 53.4841°N 2.0903°W / 53.4841; -2.0903 ("Bow Mill see Dukinfield New Mill") |
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| Bridge Eye Mill | 53°29′05″N 2°05′33″W / 53.4846°N 2.0924°W / 53.4846; -2.0924 ("Bridge Eye Mill ") | 1815 | 1910 | 72 | |
| Notes: Bridge Eye is a loop in the River Tame. Robert Lees, see New Mill, built the first part of this mill in 1815. During the investment boom of the 1920s, Lees expanded the mills in 1822 and 1823, and again in 1827. In 1833 it was powered by three steam engines; two of 50 hp and one of 36 hp. It employed 1134 people, 487 spinning 40/60 counts, and the remainder weaving. Lees sons built the Walk Mill in Ashton- together the mills employed 1500. In 1874, the ageing factory was sold to Henry Gartside & Co. In 1884, when it closed, it contained 14556 spindles and 761 power looms. | |||||
| Chapel Hill Mill | 53°28′45″N 2°05′16″W / 53.4791°N 2.0877°W / 53.4791; -2.0877 ("Chapel Hill Mill ") | 1792 | 1970 | 170 | |
| Notes: Erected about 1792, its original purpose was probably a warehouse, it was first described as a mill in 1803 when it is assumed that a steam engine had been installed and in 1811 it ran 4320 mule spindles, It was run as a separate concern and combined with Oxford Road Mills. In 1833 it had a 12 hp steam engine. It stood empty for some years and working again in 1850. In 1854 it was damaged by a boiler explosion. By 1864 it had become a combined mill, but by 1874 spinning stopped and in 1884 it was a weaving shed with 428 looms. In 1886 it was taken over by John Henry Gartside and Co and occupied until 1908. The Winterbottom Book Cloth Company took over and 400+ looms were used until 1953, the mill closed in 1962 and was demolished in the 1970s. | |||||
| Crescent Mill see Dukinfield New Mill |
53°29′03″N 2°05′25″W / 53.4841°N 2.0903°W / 53.4841; -2.0903 ("Crescent Mill see Dukinfield New Mill ") |
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| Dog Lane Mill see Dukinfield Hall Mill |
53°28′15″N 2°06′05″W / 53.4707°N 2.1015°W / 53.4707; -2.1015 ("Dog Lane Mill see Dukinfield Hall Mill") |
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| Dukinfield Mill (1835) see Aqueduct Mill |
53°28′56″N 2°05′56″W / 53.4823°N 2.0989°W / 53.4823; -2.0989 ("Dukinfield Mill (1835) see Aqueduct Mill ") |
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| Dukinfield Mill (1898) see Oxford Road Mills |
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| Dukinfield Hall Mill | 53°28′15″N 2°06′05″W / 53.4707°N 2.1015°W / 53.4707; -2.1015 ("Dukinfield Hall Mill ") | 1838 | 1895 | 56 | |
| Notes: Owned by Abel Wimpenny, occupied by Messrs Gee & Hindley, then Hindley & Sutcliffe spinning 36 counts of twist and weft. From 1851 to the fire in 1864 it was Charles Frederick Hindley and Co. By 1868 the Dukinfield Hall Spinning Co was in occupation, it was incorporated in 1874 and was running 40,236 spindles of 32/54 counts. This produced 23,000 pounds (10,000 kg) of yarn a week. The company was wound up in 1894 and the mill demolished in 1895 | |||||
| Dukinfield New Mill | 53°29′03″N 2°05′25″W / 53.4841°N 2.0903°W / 53.4841; -2.0903 ("Dukinfield New Mill ") | 1802 | 1933 | 131 | |
| Notes: Built in 1802 as a steam powered Mill. In 1811 it ran 12480 mule spindles powered by a 20 hp engine. In 1830 it was leased by Alexander Wylde Thorniley who employed 182 people, 121 in spinning and 61 on power looms. In August 1836 the lease expired and the mill became the barracks for the 10th, 20th and 38th Regiment of foot. It was back in cotton in 1845, occupied by James Ogden and Son. New mill was destroyed by fire in February 1866. At this time the main spinning block contained 5 storeys of 15 bays. The next owners were the Bow Mill Co. Ltd. who renamed it Bow Mill and ran 20000 spindles. It was renamed again around 1896, when Bowker and Ball took over. They spun 24/40s of twist yarn. They stayed at Ćrescent Mills until December 1933, when it was destroyed by fire. Bowkers and Ball moved their business to the Tame Valley Mill, where they remained until 1996. | |||||
| Dukinfield Old Mill | extension Sidney Stott |
SJ 945984 53°28′57″N 2°05′05″W / 53.4824°N 2.0848°W / 53.4824; -2.0848 ("Dukinfield Old Mill ") | 1792 | ||
| Notes: The earliest part of the mill was erected 1792, it was water powered. By 8111 it was occupied by Buckley & Binns and ran 5760 mule spindles, it was extended in 1818 and again in 1824. The owner was Cyrus Armitage, and then in 1826 by Robinson and Armitage. Power loom weaving started here in 1828, and in 1833 we know 173 people were employed here, 76 were spinning 36/40 counts and rest were power weaving. It was in this year that a stream engine was brought in to supplement the waterwheel that gave between 8 and 20 hp. Weaving was still recorded here in 1847. The mill was slightly altered to allow construction of Park Road in the 1850s. Owners changed and in November 1880 the mill suffered a serious fire. It was expanded again in 1891, and then in 1894 Sidney Stott built a further mill extension, with Adamson boilers. The older buildings were redundant- it appears the plan was to demolish them and extend the extension into a full mill. In 1895 there were 52000 mule spindles, of which 45000 continued in operation to 1953. The Stott mill was still standing in 1993. | |||||
| Furnace Mill | Bridge Eye 53°29′00″N 2°05′34″W / 53.4834°N 2.0928°W / 53.4834; -2.0928 ("Furnace Mill ") | ||||
| Notes: Landowner Mr Astley had a foundry on this site before 1784. Furnace Mill was built in 1792, its waterwheel was driven by a goit constructed across the Bridge Eye loop in the River Tame. In 1808 Furnace Mill was a five storey 92 feet (28 m) by 36 feet (11 m)main building with a three storey 8 yards (7.3 m) square cotton warehouse. The mill was extended in 1825 and let out in two parts. The part occupied by Leigh & Leton had 17 carding engines and mules with 5400 spindles. James Ogden and Son ran this mill in conjunction with New Mill. It was destroyed by fire in August 1868. | |||||
| Old Barracks Mill see Dukinfield New Mill |
53°29′03″N 2°05′25″W / 53.4841°N 2.0903°W / 53.4841; -2.0903 ("Old Barracks Mill see Dukinfield New Mill") |
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| Old Hall Mill | rebuilt Sidney Stott |
53°28′09″N 2°05′59″W / 53.4692°N 2.0997°W / 53.4692; -2.0997 ("Old Hall Mill ") | 1864 | 1933 | 69 |
| Notes: It was a weaving shed suitable for 200 looms. It was built speculatively at the end of the Cotton Famine and occupied between 1871 and 1874 by William Young & Co and then Henry Bannerman & Sons of Stalybridge. It was extended, and by 1884 had 300 looms and at the time of the fire in 1906 it had 550 looms. It was rebuilt to plans from Sidney Stott. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1930 and decommissioned, closing in 1933. | |||||
| Old Ship Mill see Furnace Mill |
53°29′00″N 2°05′34″W / 53.4834°N 2.0928°W / 53.4834; -2.0928 ("Old Ship Mill see Furnace Mill ") |
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| Oxford Road Mills | 53°28′37″N 2°04′48″W / 53.4769°N 2.0801°W / 53.4769; -2.0801 ("Oxford Road Mills ") | 1815 | 1937 | 122 | |
| Notes: This was Hindley's Mill started in 1815.It was run from 1819 by Charkes Hindley.The first mill was known as Park Mill. Weaving was introduced in 1828. Major additions were made on the opposite side of Foundry Street, between 1833 and 1840. The Oxford Road and Park Mills sometime known as Albion Mills were sold around 1870 to Abel and Nathaniel Buckley. In 1884 the mills contained 50,000 spindles and 900 power looms, but weaving had ceased by 1898. Then the mills became the property of the Dukinfield Mill Co Ltd, some buildings were demolished and the remains renamed to Dukinfield Mill and spun coarse medium counts of twist and weft. Between 1911 and 1920 the mules were replaced with ring frames, there were 40,000 ring spindles. The mills closed on 1937 and were demolished. | |||||
| Park Mill see Oxford Road Mills |
53°28′37″N 2°04′48″W / 53.4769°N 2.0801°W / 53.4769; -2.0801 ("Park Mill see Oxford Road Mills") |
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| Park Road Mill | AH Stott & Sons | 53°28′56″N 2°04′58″W / 53.4821°N 2.0829°W / 53.4821; -2.0829 ("Park Road Mill ") | 1891 | 1995 | 74 |
| Notes: 1992 Image This company was an offshoot of the Astley Mill Co Ltd having the same directors. It was built alongside Old Mill on the banks of the Tame. It was a five storey mill, the contractors being Messrs E. Taylor & Co of Littleborough. It was filled with 38 pair of mules carrying 92,280 spindles, serviced by 96 carding engines all by Asa Lees & Co. It was considered at the time to be a typical state of the art spinning mill and it featured in a series of articles on good practice in the Textile Recorder around May 1894. The power was provided by a pair of horizontal cross compound triple expansion engines by Benjamin Goodfellow of Hyde. They delivered 1500 IHP, to the shafts via a 30 feet (9.1 m) flywheel grooved for 45 ropes. It concentrated on spinning twists and weft from coarse counts of American cotton. Ring spinning was introduced by 1950 and by 1961 it had increased so there were 27,864 ring spindles and 17,664 mule spindles. It closed to cotton in 1965 and was subsequently used by ICL Computers Ltd but closed and was demolished 10 August 1995. | |||||
| Queen | Sidney Stott | 53°28′38″N 2°04′53″W / 53.4773°N 2.0814°W / 53.4773; -2.0814 ("Queen ") | 1901 | 1983 | 58 |
| Notes: Designed by Sidney Stott, built by Messrs Storrs & Son, Stalybridge. 4 storey, 33 bay mill. 100,000 mule spindles supplied Howard & Bullough, and Taylor, Lang & Co. It was delivered by an inverted triple expansion 1800 hp with a 26ft flywheel with 36 ropes, made by Scott& Hodgson. Queens Mill (Dukinfield) Ltd became part of Fine Spinners and Doublers in 1954. | |||||
| River Mill | Edward Potts | 53°28′54″N 2°04′51″W / 53.4817°N 2.0809°W / 53.4817; -2.0809 ("River Mill ") | 1877 | ||
| Notes: A four story mill built for Christian Koch near his Tame Valley Mill and the later Tower Mill. It had 45,000 spindles producing twist from American cotton. River & Tower Mills Co became a limited company about 1912 and were in work until 1934. The building found other uses | |||||
| St Helens Mill | SJ 950983 | ||||
| Notes: A set buildings started in 1819 by Joshua Binns, who had been working in Old Mill. A new section was added in 1824 and the buildings housed 18 pairs of mule with 9,936 spindles with 14 carding engines. In 1833 it used a 20 hp steam engine and employed 93 people. The third section was added by 1840 and it was possibly to house power looms introduced in 1836. In 1847 part of the building was in use to print fabric. It was occupied Jamieson, Kershaw William Young and between 1871 and 1876 by Joseph Clementson & Son. It ceased to be a cotton mill in 1876 | |||||
| Stanley Wood Mill | 53°28′27″N 2°06′07″W / 53.4743°N 2.1020°W / 53.4743; -2.1020 ("Stanley Wood Mill ") | 1861 | 1906 | 35 | |
| Notes: Or Aatley Street Mill, probably erected in 1861, it was occupied by Frederick Hindley, then Messrs Wood and Scholfield. It had a capacity of between 30,000 and 40,000 spindles but after 1888 it was only running 3000 doubling spindles. It closed in 1896 and was demolished by 1906. | |||||
| Tameside Mills | Edward Sigley & Sons No.3 Potts, Son & Pickup |
53°28′57″N 2°04′44″W / 53.4824°N 2.0790°W / 53.4824; -2.0790 ("Tameside Mills ") | 1852 | ||
| Notes: Built by the Chadwick family in 1852. The main block was six storeys. It was extended in 1857, 1860 and 1872 over doubling in size in 1884 it ran 102,000 spindles for spinning and doubling. In 1884 Potts Son and Pickup built the four storey building known as No. 3 Mill by 1920 they were 115,596 mule spindles, 14,108 ring and 10,240 doubling spindles. This large enterprise closed in 1933, and all the buildings other than the No.3 mill were demolished | |||||
| Tame Valley Mill | Extension B Morton & Sons |
53°28′54″N 2°04′36″W / 53.4816°N 2.0768°W / 53.4816; -2.0768 ("Tame Valley Mill ") | 1853 | ||
| Notes: The mill was erected in 1853 by GJ Wainwright, formerly a spinner at St Helens Mill. It was a small four storey mill with 26,000 mule spindles. In the early 1870s it was taken over by Koch & Co. They built a four storey extension in 1909 increasing its spindlage to 43,000. In 1933 the mill was idle. Bowkers and Ball had been spinning 24/40s of twist yarn, at the Dukinfield New Mill (then named Crescent Mill) when, December 1933, it was destroyed by fire. Bowkers and Ball moved their business to the Tame Valley Mill, which was renamed to Crescent Mill. They remained until 1996 employing ninety people. | |||||
| Tower Mill | Potts, pick-up &Dixon | SJ 951983 53°28′52″N 2°04′30″W / 53.481°N 2.075°W / 53.481; -2.075 ("Tower Mill ") | 1885 | ||
| Notes: Built for Christian Koch, this 4 storey mill similar to River Mill, but more ornate being a Potts design. It had 44,000 spindles and 5000 twiner spindles, doing coarse counts from American. The River and Town mills Co Ltd (1912) ceased spinning at River in 1934, but by increasing the reliance on Ring spinning kept Tower going until 1955. On closure it had 13,000 mule and 24,000 ring spindles. The building was standing in 1993 | |||||
| Union Mill | Sidney Stott | 53°28′21″N 2°06′10″W / 53.4725°N 2.1028°W / 53.4725; -2.1028 ("Union Mill ") | 1850 | 1883 | |
| Notes: Union Mill was built in 1850 to the east of the Peak Forest canal, and occupied by William, John and James Garforth. It span cotton and uniquely wove hose, which was traditionally only done in Nottingham. It was taken over by JE Lawton who just worked cotton. It closed suddenly in 1883. | |||||
| Victoria | George Woodhouse | 53°28′05″N 2°05′22″W / 53.4680°N 2.0895°W / 53.4680; -2.0895 ("Victoria ") | 1861 | 1947 | 71 |
| Notes: Built by the Newton moor Spinning Co. in 1861, to plans by George Woodhouse. It was powered by a twin triple expansion engine by Daniel Adamson. It contained 57,414 spindles in 1878, but by 1911, it had 66,000 spindles. In 1920, it and its brother mill were taken over by Astley Mill Co Ltd a company running well over 200,000 spindles. Hard times and the mill stopped spinning in 1932. | |||||
| Warbrick's Mill | 53°28′59″N 2°05′37″W / 53.4830°N 2.0937°W / 53.4830; -2.0937 ("Warbrick's Mill ") | ||||
| Notes: Warbricks Mill was a very small mill ( just 50 feet (15 m) by 30 feet (9.1 m) built over the Furnace Mill Goit. It was probably built in 1825 and by 1845, the land was part of Furnace Hill Ironworks. | |||||
| Waterside Mill | 53°28′58″N 2°05′48″W / 53.4827°N 2.0966°W / 53.4827; -2.0966 ("Waterside Mill") | 1841 | 1914 | 73 | |
| Notes: The land between the Portland Basin branch off the Peak Forest Canal and the River Tame, was sold to John Stanley an ironmaster for an ironworks. He speculatively built two cotton mills in 1841 on surplus land. Waterside mill was small, with four storeys, but unsuitable for longer mule frames. In 1896 the mill changed its name to Alma Mill, being leased by Leech, Hardy & Co. It was used for re-elling and winding and later doubling. It closed around 1914. | |||||
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