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Floss Mill
The secret passage from the mill, was rediscovered during the last war when a steam roller fell in to it, Mr Keightley who lived on Front St had the entrance in his cellar, but the passage is bricked up and partly destroyed, It was at one time a flour mill ,in 1873 Mr W Gleadell took over the mill, and flour was sent to the Crimean war, in more recent times it has been an engineering works, a pig farm, a cheese store, a shoe polish factory a laundry,and confectionery works.
On the bank side there was two arches that could have been for water wheels, also when they were digging the foundations for the new houses, they dug up broken mill wheels
Floss Mill
The secret passage from the mill, was rediscovered during the last war when a steam roller fell in to it, Mr Keightley who lived on Front St had the entrance in his cellar, but the passage is bricked up and partly destroyed, It was at one time a flour mill ,in 1873 Mr W Gleadell took over the mill, and flour was sent to the Crimean war, in more recent times it has been an engineering works, a pig farm, a cheese store, a shoe polish factory a laundry,and confectionery works.
On the bank side there was two arches that could have been for water wheels, also when they were digging the foundations for the new houses, they dug up broken mill wheels