Gordon Mills, Guiseley
2021 WR May 17 18-135 2200
Contribution to the group 'Aireborough Photo'
Sorry to those of you web-surfers searching for Gordon Mills, expecting to find the music composer and entrepreneur Gordon Mills, writer of the song 'It’s not unusual' and discoverer of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
In the nineteenth century the textile industry dominated much of the lower Aire Valley (and indeed much of West Yorkshire). There were somewhat more than twenty textile mills in what is now Aireborough, with eleven or so in Guiseley itself. And many associated mills and factories, dye works and so forth. Most are now derelict, destroyed or converted to other uses. Some look romantic in their new guises, some not so. Gordon Mills is now the site of more than twenty smaller businesses, but the old mill chimney still dominates this part of the Aireborough skyline, and the old gateposts are still there guarding the entrance.
Gordon Mills, Guiseley
2021 WR May 17 18-135 2200
Contribution to the group 'Aireborough Photo'
Sorry to those of you web-surfers searching for Gordon Mills, expecting to find the music composer and entrepreneur Gordon Mills, writer of the song 'It’s not unusual' and discoverer of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
In the nineteenth century the textile industry dominated much of the lower Aire Valley (and indeed much of West Yorkshire). There were somewhat more than twenty textile mills in what is now Aireborough, with eleven or so in Guiseley itself. And many associated mills and factories, dye works and so forth. Most are now derelict, destroyed or converted to other uses. Some look romantic in their new guises, some not so. Gordon Mills is now the site of more than twenty smaller businesses, but the old mill chimney still dominates this part of the Aireborough skyline, and the old gateposts are still there guarding the entrance.