Failsworth Mill
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Failsworth Mill
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 6 Aug 2006
This mill is opposite the better known Regent Mill in Failsworth. Owen Ashmore lists it as Failsworth Mill but I can't find it in Gurr and Hunt (The Cotton Mills of Oldham). Alexander P Kapp has done some research and found several companies listed as at Failsworth Mill - so this does seem to be its identity. I reckon late Victorian. Chimney has gone but the boiler house (room for two Lancashire boilers), engine house (money on a horizontal cross compound) and rope race survive. The sloping section above the engine house indicates a rope drive and the metal plates in the square section indicate the bearing boxes for the shafts driving the two upper floors. You can divine a lot just by looking. I would welcome any further information.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.508278
Longitude
-2.161297