Riverside Mill, Bridge Place, Godmanchester, Huntingdon
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Riverside Mill, Bridge Place, Godmanchester, Huntingdon
Image: © Richard Humphrey Taken: 31 May 2020
Built in 1847, the Riverside Mill is a very large Victorian building on the banks of the River Great Ouse, flanked on one side by a 14th century bridge and on the other by meadows and grazing land. The Mill supplied rugs and clothing to our fighting forces from the Boer War onwards. After the second World War, it supplied the Colonies, Prison Commissioners and GPO as well as many foreign countries. In the many years before winding up as a Mill, it was entirely self contained, providing its own electricity and had special dyeing and finishing departments. In earlier years, goods were transported by river until the Great Eastern Railway ran a branch line into the factory. After being empty for many years, the Riverside Mill was converted into 93 residential units in the mid 1980s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.327964
Longitude
-0.176833