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House on Bells Lane, Glemsford
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 18 Apr 2017
0.09 miles
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Glemsford: Bells Lane and the former Horsehair Factory
In the 19th and 20th centuries Glemsford was a centre for linen, silk, coconut matting and horsehair manufacture. The factory complex on Bells Lane dates from the 1820s and was built as a silk mill. According to the Shell Guide, 500 employees were grading and processing horsehair by 1855. Horsehair was much used in uphostery in the Victorian period, and production continued until late in the twentieth century. Glemsford's finest white horsehair was used in the production of such things as cavalrymen's helmet plumes and in the Scottish sporran trade. The factory buildings are now housing, with the fine and unusual postal address "Former Horsehair Factory, Bells Lane, Glemsford".
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Aug 2021
0.09 miles
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Glemsford: formerly a factory
These buildings were once part of the horsehair factory. In the 19th and 20th centuries Glemsford was a centre for linen, silk, coconut matting and horsehair manufacture. The factory complex on Bells Lane dates from the 1820s and was built as a silk mill. According to the Shell Guide, 500 employees were grading and processing horsehair by 1855. Horsehair was much used in uphostery in the Victorian period, and production continued until late in the twentieth century. Glemsford's finest white horsehair was used in the production of such things as cavalrymen's helmet plumes and in the Scottish sporran trade. The factory buildings are now housing, with the fine and unusual postal address "Former Horsehair Factory, Bells Lane, Glemsford".
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 9 Mar 2022
0.09 miles
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Glemsford: Stanway Close and the former Horsehair Factory
In the 19th and 20th centuries Glemsford was a centre for linen, silk, coconut matting and horsehair manufacture. The factory complex on Bells Lane dates from the 1820s and was built as a silk mill. According to the Shell Guide, 500 employees were grading and processing horsehair by 1855. Horsehair was much used in uphostery in the Victorian period, and production continued until late in the twentieth century. Glemsford's finest white horsehair was used in the production of such things as cavalrymen's helmet plumes and in the Scottish sporran trade. The factory buildings are now housing, with the fine and unusual postal address "Former Horsehair Factory, Bells Lane, Glemsford", as the sign above the ground-floor windows just to the right of centre shows.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Aug 2021
0.10 miles
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Glemsford: the former Horsehair Factory
In the 19th and 20th centuries Glemsford was a centre for linen, silk, coconut matting and horsehair manufacture. The factory complex on Bells Lane dates from the 1820s and was built as a silk mill. According to the Shell Guide, 500 employees were grading and processing horsehair by 1855. Horsehair was much used in uphostery in the Victorian period, and production continued until late in the twentieth century. Glemsford's finest white horsehair was used in the production of such things as cavalrymen's helmet plumes and in the Scottish sporran trade. The factory buildings are now housing, with the fine and unusual postal address "Former Horsehair Factory, Bells Lane, Glemsford".
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Aug 2021
0.11 miles
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Row of houses, Bells Lane, Glemsford
Image: © Roger Jones
Taken: 5 May 2014
0.11 miles
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Glemsford: down Bells Lane
Looking towards
Image The 18th-century Mansard-roofed house on the left is Grade II listed and parts of it are timber-framed.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 13 Aug 2021
0.11 miles
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House on Park Lane, Glemsford
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 18 Apr 2017
0.13 miles
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B1065 Bells Lane, Glemsford
At the junction with the B1065 Broadway & Brook Street
Image: © Geographer
Taken: 14 Jun 2014
0.13 miles
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Glemsford: Stanway Close
A street of bungalows, off Bells Lane at the north end of the village.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: 9 Mar 2022
0.13 miles