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Where once rosy-cheeked happy mill workers cheerily churned out masses of cotton and linen while enjoying an occasional healthy beating by the mill owner, now rows of depressed office workers hunch over computers and struggle in flourescent light. Progress eh?
Dalton Mills was once the largest textile mill in the region, employing over 2000 workers. It was built by Joseph Craven in 1869, replacing the original mill which was owned by Rachel Leach in the 1780's.
The mill was named Dalton Mills after the manager employed by Rachel Leach, a man called Dalton.
In its heyday between 1869 and 1877 the mill provided jobs for workers all over Keighley and the Worth Valley.
As the textile industry declined, the fortunes of Dalton Mills changed and up until 2004, it had been virtually empty for almost a decade. John Craven, the great-great grandson of Joseph, who had built the mill, eventually chose to sell Dalton Mills to Magna Holdings, to ensure it’s survival.
Part of the renovation of the Clock Tower has included restarting the landmark clock which has not ticked for 25 years. In the mill's heyday, thousands of workers relied on the clock to get to work on time, but the hands had not moved for a quarter of a century. Last year Magna Holdings repaired the clock, and illuminated the faces, so it can display the time to the whole of Dalton Lane again.
Back in 1894 this old mill was in the hands of Alf Priestman & co worsted spinners and manufacturers.
Photographed December 2010
The largest house on Hobsonville Point is Mill House which was the residence of the Base Commander of the Hobsonville Air Base before it was decommissioned. The land on the Base is now being developed into a large housing estate but many of the old houses are being kept and sold to private buyers.
Item #24 largest house
Shaddon Mill was built for spinning cotton by Peter Dixon & Sons in 1836. The Chimney was 305ft high when first built making it the 8th tallest chimney in the world!
Dixon's Chimney and Shaddon Mill was built in Shaddongate, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, by Peter Dixon in 1836. The architect Richard Tattersall was from Manchester.
Shaddon Mill was a cotton factory, the chimney of which became famous due to its height. The chimney was built to be tall enough to prevent the large amounts of smoke generated by the factory becoming noxious to the rest of the city. In its day Shaddon Mill was the largest cotton mill in England and had the 8th largest chimney in the world.
Shaddon Mill became listed in 1949 and the chimney was listed in 1972. Peter Dixon and Sons Ltd. provided work for 8000 people in their four mills in the area.
In 1883 Peter Dixon and Sons Ltd. went into liquidation and the mill was taken over by Robert Todd and Sons Ltd., who then used the mill for wool production rather than cotton.
Dixon's Chimney, being such a popular and historic structure in Carlisle, was restored by Carlisle City Council in 1999. Originally it was 305 ft tall, but in 1950 it was shortened to 290 ft. The internal diameter of the chimney remains 17 ft 6 in and 10 ft walls at the base.
In 2005 part of the mill was converted into apartments by Story Homes and the other part is used by the University of Cumbria
Photo taken of section of the Mansfield - Pinxton Railway (old and new lines) which originally ran from Mansfield to Pinxton Wharf on the Pinxton Canal arm of the Cromford Canal. Parts of this line are still in use
Photo taken by Vera Chapman (1923-2015), a geographer and local historian who wrote more than 20 local history books on Darlington and the surrounding area.
Image from the Darlington Local Studies picture collection. If you would like a copy of this image please contact local.studies@darlington.gov.uk quoting picture reference 'E820051764', or if you would like to see other images of the Darlington area please visit the Centre for Local Studies, at Darlington Library.
Penn Mills 0-4-0ST built by Baldwin 1917 for use in paper mills in Pennsylvania, at Steamtown, Bellows Falls, 8/70.
Horton Mill covered bridge, Blount County, Alabama.
Photo by David Haynes, uploaded with permission from Alabama Living Magazine.
Alberta, Michigan was founded in 1936 by Henry Ford as an ideal "saw mill community". The wood for all of Ford's automobiles came from the surrounding forest and were sawed in the steam powered mill.
In 1954, Ford donated the community and buildings to Michigan Tech University's School of Forest Resources.
The Lonaconing Silk Mill (Lonaconing, MD), also known as the Klotz Throwing Company, is the last intact silk mill in the United States.
An abandoned mill off HWY 380 near Farmersville Texas
Check out the article I wrote for the story behind this old building . - jamesjohnston.info/abandoned-delinted-cottonseed-mill-in-...
La Cueva (Spanish for "the cave") was established by Vicente Romero in 1851 to be the chief supply ranch for the newly established Fort Union. The ranch supplied grain throughout the west during it's heyday. This shows the backside of the mill. Located at the junction of NM 443 and 318 south of Mora, New Mexico.
Mitchell Mill was originally a two story structure built of oak and walnut. With the mill, Steve Mitchell provided ground corn and ginned cotton from 1900 until 1928. After Mr. Mitchell died, his family sold the property to the Forest Service.
The rock foundation and walls were added by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1942. Exquisite rock work is the hallmark of the CCC, a post Depression program to put young men to work. Their plan was to restore the mill to an operational condition, but the work was interrupted when the CCC was disbanded at the onset of World War II.
Stolen from the description from David Simmons' similar shot of this old building:
www.flickr.com/photos/davidsimmons/1361527102/
Taken by Blanchard Springs, in the Ozark National Forest of Arkansas.
Photograph taken at 15:47pm on September 8th 2011 off Island Highway 1 and Mill Bay Road, on the rocky shoreline of Mill Bay overlooking the Saanich Inlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Nikon D700 21mm 1/200s f/13.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF. UV filter. Manfrotto 055XPro carbon fibre tripod & Manfrotto 327 magnesium pistol grip ball head. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS.
LATITUDE: N 48d 37m 53.01s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 31m 46.11s
ALTITUDE: 4.0m