Mills in Stalybridge
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| Adshead's | 53°29′01″N 2°03′33″W / 53.4836°N 2.0592°W / 53.4836; -2.0592 ("Adshead's ") | ||||
| Notes: A four mill built in 1791, housing hand operated mules. A steam engine (fire-engine) was mentioned in 1795. Then operated by Thomas Evans and then John Kershaw. It may have left cotton in 1818. | |||||
| Albion | 53°29′02″N 2°02′59″W / 53.4840°N 2.0497°W / 53.4840; -2.0497 ("Albion ") | ||||
| Notes: James Bayley built the four storey mill and six storey mill in 1824 and 1825. A third four storey mill built just after 1845 connected them. Robert Platt, bought the mills in the late 1850s and kept them until his death in 1882. They then had 56,000 spindles running fine counts. The successor 'The Albion Mills Co Ltd' continued through to 1983. | |||||
| Aqueduct | 53°28′51″N 2°04′13″W / 53.4807°N 2.0703°W / 53.4807; -2.0703 ("Aqueduct ") | ||||
| Notes: This started as a single 5 storey mill in 1823/4, by where the Huddersfield Narrow Canal crossed the River Tame. It was 23 bays by 14 yards. John Wagstaffe (Currier Slack, Ashton) built and ran the mill with Edward Sidebottom until around 1840, when Sidebottom took over the neighbouring Robinson Street Mill. About 1853 added a second mill only 8 bays long. In 1874 these mills had 30,354 spindles about 10,000 of these were on semi automatic mules, reputedly better for very fine counts. There were 3 steam engines giving 110 hp. The mill was extended by John Wagstaffe and Co Ltd and took 54126 including 5640 ring spindles spinning warp and weft from American. In 1905 it passed to Storrs Mill Co Ltd who increased the ring spindles to 11,280. Aqueduct Mill Co (1927) took the mill through the difficult times and by 1938 was converted entirely rings, with 31,424 spindles. Cords Ltd took over in 1949, they spun American and Egyptian and also viscose and moved over to produce carpet yarns from viscose, wool and nylon. Aqueduct Mills were demolished in 1984. | |||||
| Aqueduct Higher see: Robinson Street Mill |
53°28′48″N 2°04′10″W / 53.4800°N 2.0694°W / 53.4800; -2.0694 ("Aqueduct Higher see: Robinson Street Mill ") |
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| Bankwood aka Cheetham's |
53°28′51″N 2°03′00″W / 53.4808°N 2.0501°W / 53.4808; -2.0501 ("Bankwood aka Cheetham's") |
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| Notes: David and Cheetham of Castle Street Mills erected the stone built mill in 1831 as a combined mill, it was run together with Castle Street Mills and in 1871 they were employing 1400 workers. Alone in 1903, it had 1,200 looms and 42,000 mule and 16,000 ring spindles running medium and fine counts from American. George Cheetham and Sons, and then George Cheetham and Sons (1920) Ltd worked the mill until 1930 when it was sold to the Lancashire Cotton Corporation which closed it in 1935, and the buildings were put to other uses. | |||||
| Bannerman's Mills aka North End and River Meadow |
53°29′26″N 2°02′43″W / 53.4905°N 2.0454°W / 53.4905; -2.0454 ("") | ||||
| Notes: North End Mill was erected in 1851 as a five storey stone built mill with a single storey weaving shed by James Adshead and Brothers. River Meadow Mill was a four storey Mill built on the opposite side of the River Tame. They tried to sell them in 1863, then succeeded in selling them in 1864 to William Young and members of the Bannerman family. The mills were now used solely for spinning with 80,000 mule spindles. Bannerman Mills Ltd was formed in 1889 and included Brunswick Mill, Bradford, Manchester and Old Hall Mill, Dukinfield. The Stalybridge Mills produced medium-fine counts of twist and weft using Egyptian and American on 80,000 spindles. 18,720 ring spindle were added by 1920. They were all sold to the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1930 and been closed. North End Mill was demolished but River Meadow survived in other uses. Still standing II Listed | |||||
| Bastille aka Chapel Street Mill see Rassbottom Mills |
53°29′00″N 2°03′45″W / 53.4832°N 2.0626°W / 53.4832; -2.0626 ("Bastille aka Chapel Street Mill see Rassbottom Mills ") |
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| Notes: Lee's and Harrison 1797 | |||||
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| Bayley Street | 53°28′56″N 2°03′57″W / 53.4821°N 2.0659°W / 53.4821; -2.0659 ("Bayley Street ") | ||||
| Notes: The Bayley brothers built a new combined mill on the other side of the river Tame to their existing mill in the early 1830s. It was designed by William Fairbairn, it had two floors, 1000 looms on the ground floor and 23,000 mule spindles on the first floor. The twin 110 hp beam engines were designed by Fairbairn. The flywheel was novel, power being taken off from a toothed rim. The beam engines were replaced by a 5000 hp marine engine. Henry Bayley alone was working the mill by 1871, and it was incorporated as Henry Bayley and Sons Ltd in 1875. It then contained 46,320 mule spindles and 1200 looms. It combined with Bridge Street Mill in 1883 and together they ran 99,300 spindles and 1700 looms. The worked medium counts of American into yarn and printing cloth. Benjamin Disraeli, in his novel Coningsby records a conversation with a stranger from Stalybridge and his mills. This would be William Bayley. The mills stopped between 1903 and 1906 and have been demolished leaving no trace. | |||||
| Bayley's Bridge Street | 53°28′54″N 2°03′47″W / 53.4817°N 2.0631°W / 53.4817; -2.0631 ("Bayley's Bridge Street ") | ||||
| Notes: Built in 1812 by Joseph Bayley, and after his death run in the name of his wife Mary Bayley. The mill added power weaving in 1824. William, Henry and Charles ran the firm with their mother. By 1830 it was employing 263 in spinning and 322 in weaving. By 1836, there remained no land for expansion and a new mill was built on the other side of the River Tame. This was Bayley Street Mill. | |||||
Bayley's Queen Street
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53°29′04″N 2°03′35″W / 53.4844°N 2.0597°W / 53.4844; -2.0597 ("") | ||||
| Notes: Built by Neddy all around 1800 when it contained about 9000 spindles and was leased in 1803 by Joseph and William Bayley. Joseph Bayley died here in 1811 when his arm was torn off by a blowing machine. At that time it had 10,500 mule spindles. James Bayley succeeded him running this and the larger Albion Mills until 1838. By 1841 Joseph Mills and Son were described as doublers and bobbin and skewer manufacturers, and the mill was known as Hope Mill. Demolished around 1900 when Waterloo Road was constructed over the mill. | |||||
Bowling Green Mill
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53°29′05″N 2°03′31″W / 53.4847°N 2.0585°W / 53.4847; -2.0585 ("") | ||||
| Bridge Street Mills | 53°28′52″N 2°03′53″W / 53.4810°N 2.0646°W / 53.4810; -2.0646 ("Bridge Street Mills ") | ||||
| Notes: Seven storey mill built in 1815 by the Platt Brothers George and Joshua, recently of Soot-poke.In 1831 it was inherited by Robert Platt who extended it and built the Quarry Street Mills. By 1882 Albion Mills. It was taken over by Robert Hyde Buckley and Sons and floated as a limited company in 1897 running 50,000 spindles doing Fine counts of Egyptian. It ran in cotton until 1953, and was then demolished. | |||||
| Castle | 53°28′53″N 2°04′03″W / 53.4814°N 2.0676°W / 53.4814; -2.0676 ("Castle ") | ||||
| Notes: Four storey Mill on Dale Street built in 1891-2. Designed by Potts Son and Pickup. Carding machines by John Hetherington & Son, other preparatory machinery by Samuel Brooks, mules carrying 87972 spindles by Taylor, Lang & Co. Weft and Twist from American medium counts. The 1400 IHP horizontal triple expansion engine by Yates and Thom ran a 30 ft diameter, 52 ton flywheel with 32 ropes at 60 rpm. Boilers were by Fernihough & Sons. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1930 and closed. The mill was demolished in June 2009. | |||||
| Castle Street (Hall's) aka The Stone Factory |
53°28′56″N 2°03′38″W / 53.4822°N 2.0605°W / 53.4822; -2.0605 ("Castle Street (Hall's) aka The Stone Factory") |
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| Notes: The first mill was a six storey stone built mill from 1815 and extended in brick in 1824. It employed 187 in 1833. It had a 60 hp engine and spun coarse counts. The mill manager John Bates was taken into the partnership and he was succeeded by his son Ralph. They also had premises on Chapel St. This mill closed in 1883 and was used for warehousing. | |||||
| Castle Street Mills aka Longland's Mill |
53°28′59″N 2°03′33″W / 53.4830°N 2.0592°W / 53.4830; -2.0592 ("Castle Street Mills aka Longland's Mill ") |
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Notes: A mill with three lives. In its first incarnation from 1805 to 1896 it was a spinning mill run by the Cheethams, in its second incarnation from 1920 until 1961,it was known as Longlands Mill. In 2010 it is an apartment block, restored by Urban Splash and known as the Mill.
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| Chapel Street aka Bastille see Rassbottom Mills |
53°29′00″N 2°03′45″W / 53.4832°N 2.0626°W / 53.4832; -2.0626 ("Chapel Street aka Bastille see Rassbottom Mills ") |
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| Notes: Lee's and Harrison 1797 | |||||
| Cheetham's see: Bankwood |
53°28′51″N 2°03′00″W / 53.4808°N 2.0501°W / 53.4808; -2.0501 ("Cheetham's see: Bankwood ") |
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| Clarence Stamford Mill |
53°28′59″N 2°04′24″W / 53.4831°N 2.0732°W / 53.4831; -2.0732 ("Clarence Stamford Mill ") |
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| Notes: Erected in 1862 during the Lancashire Cotton Famine by William and Henry Bayley as a work creation scheme.A five storey brick building between Clarence Street and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Tall chimney. Robert and Joseph Byrom took over in 1871 and, by 1884 it had 70,000 spindles, in 1888 it had 75,000 spindles and by 1896 it had 90,000. It spun coarse to medium counts of twist and weft using Egyptian and American on mules and ring frames. In diversified into some wool and cotton mixtures in the 1930s, and post second world war, Robert Byrom (Stalybridge) Ltd was spinning cotton and rayon on 49600 mule spindles and 42,060 ring spindles. It closed in 1960, the building with a truncated chimney still stands.It is now in multiple occupancy with the main block home to the Stamford Group. | |||||
| Copley | 53°29′09″N 2°02′32″W / 53.4857°N 2.0423°W / 53.4857; -2.0423 ("Copley ") | ||||
| Notes: The buildings were erected in 1827 and had dual use for machine making and spinning 40 counts of twist. In 1883 James Wilkinson Ltd was running 51,000 spindles. In 1920 the buildings were empty but in 1930 Robert Hyde Buckley and Son, a part of Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust Ltd, were using the mills for cotton doubling. This firm continued to operate until 1974. Grade II listed, the buildings are in multiple use. | |||||
| Eagle see Phoenix |
53°28′47″N 2°04′14″W / 53.4797°N 2.0705°W / 53.4797; -2.0705 ("Eagle see Phoenix ") |
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| Notes: Cotton Waste in 1876 possibly. | |||||
| Garside's | 53°29′06″N 2°03′38″W / 53.4849°N 2.0606°W / 53.4849; -2.0606 ("Garside's ") | ||||
| Notes: Built in 1798 by Neddy Hall, it was soon owned by Samuel Garside and worked with John Brierley. It contained about 4000 spindles on twelve mules and was powered by 8 hp engine. It was probably demolished in 1840 to make way for the railway. | |||||
| Grosvenor Street Mills including Old Mill Castle Mills Clock Tower |
53°28′53″N 2°04′03″W / 53.4814°N 2.0676°W / 53.4814; -2.0676 ("Grosvenor Street Mills including Old Mill Castle Mills Clock Tower ") |
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| Notes: Old Mill was built in 1805 by John Leech, it had a 14 hp Boulton & Watt steam engine and ran 9600 mule spindles. A combined mill was built next containing the first power looms in Stalybridge and the first to use gas lighting, the gas plant was built in 1818. John Leech was succeeded by his son John in 1822. The next combined mill was built in 1824, then a warehouse was built and converted to spinning in 1832. By then they had six steam engines delivering 158 hp and employed 1300. A further multi-storey mill was added about 1850 and the weaving sheds expanded. The expansion stopped about 1872 and in 1884 they contained 1855 looms and 102,000 spindles.It became a limited company in 1903 and started to introduce ring frames. By 1913 it has 33,400 ring spindles and 47,000 mule spindles and 1824 looms. The 1920s were bad. It was bought out in 1929 by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, who had closed and demolished all the building with exception of the Clock Tower Mill, by 1934. This continued in cotton until 1955. | |||||
| Hen-cote | 53°29′00″N 2°03′40″W / 53.4832°N 2.0611°W / 53.4832; -2.0611 ("Hen-cote ") | ||||
| Notes: Few details other that the location and that it had been demolished in 1845 | |||||
| Heyrod | 53°29′37″N 2°02′33″W / 53.4936°N 2.0426°W / 53.4936; -2.0426 ("Heyrod ") | ||||
| Notes: An Arkwright type mill built on the Tame by Faulkner., Brown and Etchell in 1788. It was a five storey mill 17 yds by 9.5 yds. It started with water frames. A second mill was added in 1804 by Ousey- it was designed for mule spinning, being 3.5 yds wider. In 1806 a combination of Mule and Throstle spinning was being done with 24 mules carrying 6072 spindles, 16 throstles carrying 1,664 spindles and 15 carding engines. A third fireproof mill had been added by the new tenants Judson Ousey. So in 1830, the 52 throstle frames were producing 1000 lbs of twist yarn a week and the 30 mules producing 1000lbs of weft a week. They were converted into a print works around 1850 and known as the Harthead Works. The mills came into the hands of the Calico Printers Association and were demolished around 1930. | |||||
| Higher | 53°29′11″N 2°03′05″W / 53.4863°N 2.0513°W / 53.4863; -2.0513 ("Higher ") | ||||
| Notes: Built on the Tame on the Cheshire side upstream from Lower Mill originally as a fulling mill for woollen, it was in place by 1775. It came over to cotton around 1803 when it contained 4,800 spindles, hosting James Boyer and William Earnshaw, probably using throstles. One part was four storeys of 68ft by 28ft, and the other was three storeys of 38ft by 40ft. The fall on the river at that point was 13 ft. The first fire was in 1827, but the rebuilt mill was occupied by James Hall, of King Street Mill in 1836, and steam power was being used. The second fire here was in March 1873 when a centre shaft on the third floor overheated and 60 people lost their jobs. Only 11,000 spindles of a possible 30,000 were in use. The site was obtained by the North of England Paper Manufacturing Company, that was incorporated in 1874. The new multi-storey paper mill building was standing 1990. | |||||
| Hollins | 53°28′45″N 2°04′06″W / 53.4793°N 2.0682°W / 53.4793; -2.0682 ("Hollins ") | ||||
| Notes: An 1826 mill built by Joshua Platt had four storeys and an attic. It was 64 ft by 40 ft. Even in 1882 when it closed, it was running throstle frames and mules, and had a dye plant. It was demolished by 1896 and has been built over. | |||||
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53°29′04″N 2°03′35″W / 53.4844°N 2.0597°W / 53.4844; -2.0597 ("") | ||||
| Kershaw Wood | 53°29′01″N 2°03′55″W / 53.4836°N 2.0653°W / 53.4836; -2.0653 ("Kershaw Wood ") | ||||
| Notes: Built in the boom of the mid-1830s, it was sold partially fitted up in 1837 with a 60 hp engine and space for 40,000 spindles. It had several owners before it was bought in 1878 by the London & North Western Railway Company and demolished to make way for a station that was never built. | |||||
| King Street | 53°29′05″N 2°03′31″W / 53.4847°N 2.0585°W / 53.4847; -2.0585 ("King Street ") | ||||
| Notes: Built by James Mellor around 1800, and doubled in size in 1803 when in contained 5600 spindles. Ownership passed to James Hall in 1832, his sons built a new mill on the opposite side of King Street in 1850. The new mill was in cotton until the 1870ś and was demolished before 1892. | |||||
| Lilley's | 53°30′N 2°06′W / 53.5°N 2.1°W / 53.5; -2.1 ("Lilley's ") | ||||
| Notes: Until 1802, a horse gin provided power for this Woollen Mill, that was erected by Nicholas Lilley in 1790. The steam engine bought in 1802 was the earliest to be used in the district. In 1807 he went bankrupt leaving the mill that contained some cotton spinning equipment. It was converted into cottages that were demolished about 1857. | |||||
| Longland's see Castle Street Mills |
53°28′59″N 2°03′33″W / 53.4830°N 2.0592°W / 53.4830; -2.0592 ("Longland's see Castle Street Mills ") |
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| Notes: Converted into apartments by Urban Splash | |||||
| North End Bannerman's Mills |
53°29′26″N 2°02′43″W / 53.4905°N 2.0454°W / 53.4905; -2.0454 ("North End Bannerman's Mills ") |
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| Oakwood New Mill, Millbrook |
53°29′36″N 2°02′03″W / 53.4934°N 2.0341°W / 53.4934; -2.0341 ("Oakwood New Mill, Millbrook ") |
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| Notes: Erected in 1851 in Mill brook as the New Mill for the Staley Mill Co, which became the Millbrook Spinning Co. It was a stone built four storey spinning mill doing medium counts of twists from American. It started with a beam engine but this was replaced in 1908 with a Yates and hom triple expansion engine. Rope dives were installed and new boilers. In 1911 it drove 59,000 mule spindles and 7000 ring spindles.It stopped spinning in 1962 when it passed over to the Dukinfield Bleaching Company.Now derelict. The engine room was covered completely with white tiles. | |||||
| Old Street | 53°29′01″N 2°03′18″W / 53.4835°N 2.0551°W / 53.4835; -2.0551 ("Old Street ") | ||||
| Notes: This could have been one of two mills in existence in 1790: a former corn mill or a former woollen mill known as 'Old Greasy'. It had a drawing-frame: no further information known. | |||||
| Phoenix | 53°28′47″N 2°04′14″W / 53.4797°N 2.0705°W / 53.4797; -2.0705 ("Phoenix ") | ||||
| Notes: Built between 1831and 1845 in Tame Street, co-located with the Eagle Iron Works. Evidence of Cotton Weaving around 1869 to 1872. | |||||
| Premier | 53°28′51″N 2°04′24″W / 53.4809°N 2.0733°W / 53.4809; -2.0733 ("Premier ") | ||||
| Notes: An unusual single storey combined mill designed by Sidney Stott in1906. The shed contained 21,000 ring spindles and 1017 looms. The line shafts were driven by nine 60 HP, and three 150 HP 3-phase, 400V electric motors. The chief engineer of the nearby Tame Valley SHMD generating station was appointed consulting engineer to Premier Mill Ltd. The syndicate of owners also owned Victor Mill and Ray Mill. In 1911 the three companies merged too form Victor Mill Ltd. The firm employed 1500 people, Premier was spinning coarser counts of twill and weft, and weaving printers shirtings and twills. from American cotton. By 1950 the company was part of the Fine Spinners and Doubler Association, and was taken over by Courtaulds in 1960 and still in production until 1982. The mill was standing in 1990. | |||||
| Quarry Street | 53°28′45″N 2°03′57″W / 53.4791°N 2.0659°W / 53.4791; -2.0659 ("Quarry Street ") | ||||
| Notes: The first mill was a 6 storey 15 bay brick built mill erected in 1834 by Robert Platt who was expanding his operation from the Bridge Street site. The second mill was built between 1845 and 1872 by Platt who also owned Albion Mill, Platt died in 1882. Robert Platt Ltd, chaired by Frederick Platt-Higgins spun fine counts of twist and weft on 66,316 spindles. No 1 Mill was destroyed by fire in 1915 but rebuilt on the insurance money in 1916, it is surmised that the architects were Potts & Hemingway. The firm survived, joining the Fine Spinners and Doubler Association in 1938 with 90,000 spindles. The mill was later occupied by the Futura Rubber Company Ltd. a manufacturer of footwear which ceased trading in 1995. The mill has been demolished and replaced by housing. | |||||
| Queen Street | 53°29′05″N 2°03′33″W / 53.4848°N 2.0593°W / 53.4848; -2.0593 ("Queen Street ") | ||||
| Notes: A 14 hp Boulton and Watt engine was installed in the new mill in 1804 for Thomas Lees in partnership with John Brierley. It was destroyed by fire in May 1823, probably caused by the overheating of a shaft in the blowing room. The engine and the mill opposite were saved. The new mill was 5 storeys, 29 yds by 13 yds. It had a succession of tenants and by 1868 was i use for doubling being too narrow for modern mules. It was run in conjunction with Bankwood Mill. The 12,500 doubling spindles were supplied by Platt Brothers. It was bought around 1881 by the London & North-Western Railway Company for a planned but not built extension. It was demolished shortly after 1906. | |||||
| Rassbottom Mills | 53°29′00″N 2°03′45″W / 53.4832°N 2.0626°W / 53.4832; -2.0626 ("Rassbottom Mills ") | ||||
| Notes: A collective term for all the mills at Rassbottom in Stalybridge. These include Lees', Harrisons', Hencote, Water Street Mill, Castle Street Mills. It was presumed that it was the water power potential of this site that attracted the Lees brother and Harrison that purchased the site from Samuel Ousley in July 1795. They had already built up capital from cotton elsewhere. Chapel Street Mill 1797, bought a 40 hp Bateman & Sherratt steam engine in 1899. With a second mill, they had 34,000 spindles in 1803 making it the largest concern in Stalybridge or Ashton. A fire on 28 December 1804 destroyed the older mill. Lees & Harrison rebuilt the mill with 24,960 mule spindles. George Cheetham and John Leech left the partnership and built a mill on Castle Street. By 1816 Lees and Harrison split, Harrison running the older mill with his sons, The Harrisons expanded and added a new 6 storey mill fronting Chapel Street with a 80 hp Boulton & Watt engine with a 7 ft stroke running a 24 ft flywheel. They bought more engines and retired the Bateman & Sherratt to King Street where it ran until 1859. In 1833 Harrisons had 220 hp of steam, from four engines, 3 of which were Boulton & Watt and 15 hp from a waterwheel. They employed 1300, of which 750 were weaving. John Lees with his son Jeremiah took the rebuilt new mill, and expanded i 1816,1820, 1821 etc. These mills were run by John Lee and Son until 1847. They had 110 hp from 3 engines employing 796 hands. They were taken over by Henry Johnson and Sons, cotton spinners and manufacturers of shirtings and printing cloth. They built the Johnsons Side Mills on the Cheshire side of the River Tame in 1854, a 3 storey spinning block and more weaving sheds. In the 1870s the London & North-Western Railway bought most of the mills on the Lancashire side and demolished them for a goods yard that was never constructed. Some mills transferred to James Hall, Son & Co, but became disused in the 1880s and were demolished. The remaining mills became owned by Thomas Ashton Harrison & Co. There was more expansion for example off Caroline Street. In 1911 there were running 1,347 looms, 27,000 mule spindles and 44,000 ring spindles. By 1921 they were running 1,356 looms weaving domestics, plains, twills and sheeting, and spinning medium counts of twist and weft from American on 8400 mule and 58,600 ring spindles. They closed in 1933. The mills on the Lancashire side were demolished, while the Caroline Street mills are still standing. |
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| Ray | SJ 952983 53°28′52″N 2°04′26″W / 53.481°N 2.074°W / 53.481; -2.074 ("Ray ") | ||||
| Notes: A five storey, electrically driven red brick spinning mill built in 1907. It contained 66,528 ring spindles and 9000 doubling spindles. Together with Premier Mill it was using 3,050 horsepower (2,270 kW) of electricity. The syndicate of owners also owned Victor Mill and Premier Mill. In 1911 the three companies merged too form Victor Mill Ltd. The firm employed 1500 people, Ray was spinning medium counts from American cotton. By 1950 the company was part of the Fine Spinners and Doubler Association, and was taken over by Courtaulds in 1960 and still in production until 1982.The mill was standing in 1990. | |||||
| River Meadow Bannerman's Mills |
53°29′26″N 2°02′43″W / 53.4905°N 2.0454°W / 53.4905; -2.0454 ("River Meadow Bannerman's Mills ") |
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| Riverside | 53°29′13″N 2°02′55″W / 53.4870°N 2.0486°W / 53.4870; -2.0486 ("Riverside ") | ||||
| Notes: A weaving shed built in 1884 designed by Stott and Sons. It had 1200 Looms by Eli Cryer & Co with other machines by Dickensons of Blackburn, powered by a 450 IHP engine by Wainwrights of Stalybridge. It struggled being outside he main weaving area. It was taken over four years later by Jackson & Steeple of Mossley, who in 1893 installed a few thousand ring spindles. In 1911 it had 4,000 ring spindles; 854 looms.The mill was now viable and worked as a combined mill until 1930 when the rings were abandoned. In 1952 it was re-equipped with 800 Northrop automatic looms. It closed in 1962 but the building survived as part of a now far larger factory. | |||||
| Robinson Street Mill aka Aqueduct Higher Mill aka Nuttall's Mill |
53°28′48″N 2°04′10″W / 53.4800°N 2.0694°W / 53.4800; -2.0694 ("Robinson Street Mill aka Aqueduct Higher Mill aka Nuttall's Mill") |
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| Notes: The first small mill was built by Daniel Howard in 1824 close to the Outred aqueduct over the Tame. It was not successful and was sold containing 14 pairs of mules holding 8000 spindles. Around 1840 John Wagstaffe and Edward Sidebottom took over this mill and Aqueduct Mill. The mill was run by Edward Sidebottom & Sons, and later in 1882 by the Stalybridge Spinning and Doubling Mills Ltd. There were two main blocks one of 3 storeys and one of 5 storeys. They contained 46,000 mule spindles and 4,200 twiner spindles turned by two beam engines and two John Petrie & Co horizontal together will 486 hp. Then it was Hulme Spinning Co Ltd and in 1901 C.H.Nuttall and Co Ltd who introduced an additional 20,000 ring spindles. Extra floors were added in 1904 and it ran 72,000 spindles, 38,000 being in ring frames. It closed and was demolished in the 1920s. | |||||
| Soot-poke | 53°29′05″N 2°03′40″W / 53.4847°N 2.0611°W / 53.4847; -2.0611 ("Soot-poke ") | ||||
| Spring Grove | SJ 976999 53°29′46″N 2°02′17″W / 53.496°N 2.038°W / 53.496; -2.038 ("Spring Grove ") | ||||
| Notes: The last purpose built water mill, in 1818, on John Howards land on the Swineshaw Brook. 115 people were employed at this five storey mill spinning forty count. the 20 hp waterwheel was supplemented by a 10 hp engine. Expanded a little, it was sold for woollen in 1868. The building burnt down in 1882, but woollen manufacture continued in the new buildings on the site until 1969. | |||||
| Staley | SJ977996 53°29′35″N 2°02′10″W / 53.493°N 2.036°W / 53.493; -2.036 ("Staley ") | ||||
Staley Mill (Howard's)
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53°29′29″N 2°01′54″W / 53.4914°N 2.0318°W / 53.4914; -2.0318 ("") | ||||
| Notes: An old corn mill that converted about 1800 and owned by William Bayley. It had 5000 spindles in 1811. There was a fire, it was rebuilt by James Adshead in 1815 and sold in the 1820s to Richard Buckley and Co, then Buckley and Howard. In 1833 they were employing 82 spinning 40 counts. Power was by a combination of water and steam-using 12 hp. In 1865 it was still operating hand operated mules holding 11,3238 with 4,284 spindles on self-actors. Then it had 120 hp steam and 22 hp water. Howard had another mill on Swineshaw Brook. When Bagshaws took over the mill after the Cotton Famine it was named Swineshaw Mill, and the firm became Swineshaw Twist Co Ltd running 22,000 spindles. It came out of cotton in 1896, and went into woollen, and the mill was renamed as Castle Hall Mill: it was working until 1962. | |||||
| Staley New Mills | 53°28′58″N 2°02′46″W / 53.4829°N 2.0460°W / 53.4829; -2.0460 ("Staley New Mills ") | ||||
| Notes: These mills were demolished about 1983, having been out of cotton since 1896. They were built by the Adsheads as their 'new mill' in 1824; it employed 209. The second mill was built in the 1830s and slightly smaller- together they had 58,000 spindles. | |||||
| Stalybridge | 53°28′57″N 2°03′52″W / 53.4824°N 2.0644°W / 53.4824; -2.0644 ("Stalybridge Mill, Stalybridge") | ||||
| Stone Factory | 53°28′56″N 2°03′38″W / 53.4822°N 2.0605°W / 53.4822; -2.0605 ("Stone Factory ") | ||||
| Swineshaw | 53°29′29″N 2°01′54″W / 53.4914°N 2.0318°W / 53.4914; -2.0318 ("Swineshaw ") | ||||
| Valley | 53°28′11″N 2°02′23″W / 53.4696°N 2.0398°W / 53.4696; -2.0398 ("Valley ") | ||||
| Notes: A stone built woollen mill with 4 storeys, 11 by 18 yards, and attic on the Acres Brook. which powered a water wheel from a 30 ft fall. There was a reservoir. It was expanded. By 1827 a supplementary waterwheel had been added. By 1838 it had been bought by Samuel Hyde and wes spinning cotton, using mule frames with 7000 spindles made by Hibbert & Platt of Oldham. It was sold in 1841, without the steam engine. It disappeared from records between 1872 and 1896. The reservoir remains. | |||||
| Victor | SJ 953982 53°28′52″N 2°04′19″W / 53.481°N 2.072°W / 53.481; -2.072 ("Victor") | ||||
| Notes: A fine Edwardian four storey Sidney Stott Mill (1903), the first in Stalybridge built entirely for ring spinning. The 77,000 spindles were powered by a 1500 IHP George Saxon, inverted vertical triple expansion. The syndicate of owners also owned Premier Mill and Ray Mill. In 1911 the three companies merged too form Victor Mill Ltd. The firm employed 1500 people, Victor Mill was spinning twist yarn from American and Egyptian cotton. By 1950 the company was part of the Fine Spinners and Doubler Association, and was taken over by Courtaulds in 1960 and still in production until 1982. The mill was demolished in 1985 . | |||||
| Water Street | 53°29′01″N 2°03′36″W / 53.4835°N 2.0601°W / 53.4835; -2.0601 ("Water Street ") | ||||
| Notes: Built in 1797 by John Orrell on the River Tame, it was a purpose built steam powered mule mill powered by a 10 hp Boulton & Watt 15 ft beam engine with a stroke of 4 ft driving a 12 ft flywheel. Various tenants went on to build other Tameside mills. It had 13,000 mule spindles in 1811. A further 36 hp Boulton and Watt was ordered in 1819 and the 10 hp was bought by Mr Thornley, of Hadfield. Though becoming an asset of a joint stock company in 1867, it had been demolished by 1896. | |||||
| Wareing's | 53°28′55″N 2°03′45″W / 53.4820°N 2.0625°W / 53.4820; -2.0625 ("Wareing's ") | ||||
| Notes: A small mill built in 1821 near the Huddersfield Canal Wharf on Bridge St. It was run by John and William Wareing until 1852 when it passed to the Thackerays who worked it to 1903. It was a 5 storey mill with attic, with 10,824 spindles. It ceased spinning in 1896 and remained standing in other uses until 1970. | |||||
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