This was a chance find on a trip back from a National Trust place. The building is partially in use by the factory next door.
History. Albion Mill was built as one of a number of cotton mills in the little town of New Mills. It’s shown as a cotton mill on a 1892 map, but as an emery mill on a 1898 map.
Elsewhere I read that J. E. Dalton & Co., who made emery products (grinding belts etc.), occupied it from 1872. Either way they seem to have been the longest running inhabitants, up to at least the 1960’s.
These days the bottom floors are used by Swizzels Matlow to store production line machinery. Swizzels make sweets - Refreshers, Fizzers, Parma Violets and others.
Pictures go from the attic down.
The following four are from the red brick office at the front, which has badly rotten floors.
Ground floor.
End view showing the Swizzels factory on the other side of the canal.
History. Albion Mill was built as one of a number of cotton mills in the little town of New Mills. It’s shown as a cotton mill on a 1892 map, but as an emery mill on a 1898 map.
Elsewhere I read that J. E. Dalton & Co., who made emery products (grinding belts etc.), occupied it from 1872. Either way they seem to have been the longest running inhabitants, up to at least the 1960’s.
These days the bottom floors are used by Swizzels Matlow to store production line machinery. Swizzels make sweets - Refreshers, Fizzers, Parma Violets and others.
Pictures go from the attic down.
The following four are from the red brick office at the front, which has badly rotten floors.
Ground floor.
End view showing the Swizzels factory on the other side of the canal.
