Leigh Spinners, Leigh
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Leigh Spinners, Leigh
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 8 Oct 1988
Tufted carpet manufacturers. Two mills with a common boiler house and chimney. No. 2 closest to the camera houses a disused cross compound mill engine - the biggest of its type to survive. Is listed and attempts to remove it were foiled with the support of the International Stationary Steam Engine Society.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.493076
Longitude
-2.493442