There are 2 mills directly next to each other here, Both explorable and both worthy of a look, Borough and castle mills.
we explored borough as the access was a little more "obvious" and we only had time to do 1 of the pair!!
info on the net is sketchy, but it is listed in the 1891 graces guide as having 64,872 spindles, 16/421 twist. with the manager called Miles Crompton and the secretary as a S. Potter.
more recently it has been used as a multilet business center for all sorts of firms including a building firm, a courier, a warehousing outfit and the oldham NDC (new deal for communities) covering hathershaw and fitton hill areas of the town.
borough is this mill here :- Zoom Earth | LIVE weather map, storm tracker, rain radar
visited with thenewmendoza.
All in all well worth wasting a couple of hours on, but be quick!! its not going to be long in this world judging by this....
Mill to be demolished
B..
we explored borough as the access was a little more "obvious" and we only had time to do 1 of the pair!!
info on the net is sketchy, but it is listed in the 1891 graces guide as having 64,872 spindles, 16/421 twist. with the manager called Miles Crompton and the secretary as a S. Potter.
more recently it has been used as a multilet business center for all sorts of firms including a building firm, a courier, a warehousing outfit and the oldham NDC (new deal for communities) covering hathershaw and fitton hill areas of the town.
borough is this mill here :- Zoom Earth | LIVE weather map, storm tracker, rain radar
visited with thenewmendoza.
All in all well worth wasting a couple of hours on, but be quick!! its not going to be long in this world judging by this....
Mill to be demolished
B..
