Maple Mills
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Maple Mills by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Maple Mills
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 29 Jun 2010
The remains of the west wall and the huge mound of rubble resulting from the devastating fire of April 2009. This shows to good effect the layout of the end of the building. The blank walls left would have housed toilets and the access to the main staircase in the tower. Then comes an open circulating space in front of the goods lift, the sliding doors to which can be clearly seen. Beyond this is the rope race. Various metal frames can be seen built into the brickwork which would have carried bearings for the line-shafting, oil from which has stained the walls. The shafts would have had pulleys attached inside the rope race, driven directly by ropes running round the flywheel of the steam engine.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.525957
Longitude
-2.106155