Th'Owd Mill I'th Thrutch
This is not in fact two bridges but all that remains of the outside walls of a two storey building (the perching room) over the River Spodden in Healey Dell, Rochdale. This was part of a Fulling mill, built in 1676, where loose knit woollen cloth was turned into wearable close woven material. Originally the cloth was soaked in a concoction of water, stale urine, soapwort, and fullers earth and trampled by foot as with grapes in vineyards.
Th'Owd Mill I'th Thrutch
This is not in fact two bridges but all that remains of the outside walls of a two storey building (the perching room) over the River Spodden in Healey Dell, Rochdale. This was part of a Fulling mill, built in 1676, where loose knit woollen cloth was turned into wearable close woven material. Originally the cloth was soaked in a concoction of water, stale urine, soapwort, and fullers earth and trampled by foot as with grapes in vineyards.