Network Connect Limited / Egret Mill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Network Connect Limited / Egret Mill by Gerald England as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Gerald England Taken: 4 Aug 2014
Network Connect is a voice and data communication technology company http://www.networkconnect.co.uk/ They are based in the former office block of Egret Mill on Old Street - built in 1864, the oldest part of a mill complex that dated from 1823. An adjoining 5-storey spinning block was destroyed by fire in 1881 and replaced by weaving sheds, the last part of which were demolished in 2013. http://www.ashton-under-lyne.com/history/cotton.htm For a photograph from 1910 see http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/monochrome-moment-egret-mill.html Doorway detail: Image
