1 Darren Mckeown
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Looking for anymore information about Cheapside Mills in Batley, old photos etc. More information on the fire in 1880’s, was part of the building destroyed?
Cheapside Mills
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Basic information
- Name
- Cheapside Mills.
- Township
- Batley.
- Civil Parish
- Batley.
- Country
- West Yorkshire.
- Type of record
- A.
- NMRfn
- 63513.
- NGR
- SE 2485 2410.
- UTM
- 53.71273242, -1.624972921
Description
Established in 1840s as steam-powered fulling, scribbling and spinning mill, but rapidly becoming an integrated woollen mill with construction of powerloom-weaving sheds, finishing and dyeing departments, warehouse and, typical of the Heavy Woollen area, rag-grinding sheds. From 1872 it formed part of the business of J, T and J Taylor, the largest concern in Batley, based at Blakeridge Mills. Surviving buildings at time of record included main mill (four storeys, seventeen bays), rebuilt in 1895 after an earlier fire; weaving sheds (one on three levels), rag-grinding sheds, an elaborate warehouse and office building of c1865, and a combined mill and warehouse of c1922, the last with a steel frame and concrete floors. A turbine house was built in 1934-5.
Ortophotographic map
Aerial photographic view of Cheapside Mills (Batley, West Yorkshire).
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