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Title: Bottoms Mill, Walsden, Todmorden - HPC00144
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Title
Bottoms Mill, Walsden, Todmorden - HPC00144
Description
BOTTOMS MILL, Walsden
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD6
GRID REF: 934 214
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Quite a small mill site on either side of Rochdale Road. Mill buildings and a weaving shed were first erected in the 1850’s on the western side and subsequently enlarged. The buildings are mainly stone built, with some brick additions and alterations. Large stone weaving shed and a later, circular brick chimney. Across the road is a group of small stone buildings and a brick built weaving shed with an octagonal stone chimney (probably reduced). This was the site of WINTERBUTLEE MILL, built c1860 as a cotton spinning mill and purchased by Bottoms Mill in 1820. This site was much larger at one time – main mill buildings now gone.
PRESENT USE AND POTENTIAL: This mill is one of only seven in Todmorden area still engaged in textiles manufacture, cotton waste spinning being the main activity here. Mill shop on the site. The main chimney (together with that of Jubilee Mill next door) is a notable land mark in this part of the Todmorden-Littleborough valley.
Information from a mill survey carried out in 1984.
Photo taken c1985.
This is now the site of Gordon Rigg, Garden Centre
LOCATION: Bottoms
REF: CD6
GRID REF: 934 214
CLASSIFICATION: D
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Mid-late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: Quite a small mill site on either side of Rochdale Road. Mill buildings and a weaving shed were first erected in the 1850’s on the western side and subsequently enlarged. The buildings are mainly stone built, with some brick additions and alterations. Large stone weaving shed and a later, circular brick chimney. Across the road is a group of small stone buildings and a brick built weaving shed with an octagonal stone chimney (probably reduced). This was the site of WINTERBUTLEE MILL, built c1860 as a cotton spinning mill and purchased by Bottoms Mill in 1820. This site was much larger at one time – main mill buildings now gone.
PRESENT USE AND POTENTIAL: This mill is one of only seven in Todmorden area still engaged in textiles manufacture, cotton waste spinning being the main activity here. Mill shop on the site. The main chimney (together with that of Jubilee Mill next door) is a notable land mark in this part of the Todmorden-Littleborough valley.
Information from a mill survey carried out in 1984.
Photo taken c1985.
This is now the site of Gordon Rigg, Garden Centre
Creator
Harry Pogson
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
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Rights
PHDA - Harry Pogson Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HPC00144.tif
Collection
Citation
Harry Pogson, “Bottoms Mill, Walsden, Todmorden - HPC00144,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7577.
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