Sunnybank Mill (site Of)
The estate built in the late 1990s above Wood Bank in Helmshore is the site of Sunny Bank Mill, built by Joseph Porritt at the end of the nineteenth century on the site of his smaller and older mills. For a time it had the longest loom in the world and was one of the worlds largest producers of industrial felt (mainly for papermaking). His quarries in the Alden Valley provided stone for his buildings in St Annes on Sea. In the 1970s the mill was sold to developers and was eventually demolished in 1977, including the chimney which had been one of Helmshore's dominant landmarks. There is still the base of a wall of one of the mill buildings in the woods close by, and a large cutting into the hillside. These are some of the only remnants of the mill to survive.
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“Up a lazy river by the old mill run, that lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun.”
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