IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Kingsley Walk, TRING, HP23 5DW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Kingsley Walk, HP23 5DW by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (170 Images Found)
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Afternoon, Brook Street, Tring
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Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 6 Dec 2009
0.01 miles
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The Old Silk Mill, Brook Street
The silk mill started in 1823 and employed up to 600 people. It worked until 1898. It is now business units.
http://www.theoldsilkmilltring.co.uk/info.html
Originally 5 storeys, reduced to 3 early 20C. The extensions in front are later additions.
Listing https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1338863
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 23 Sep 2016
0.03 miles
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Silk Mill Business Park
It would be easy to imagine that textile mills (possibly the inspiration for Blake's 'dark satanic mills') were exclusively a phenomenon of the industrial revolution in the Pennine towns of northern England. This mill, however, was established in a rural home counties town, now very much a part of the London commuter belt.
The mill was built in 1824/5 by William Kay as a 'throwing mill' where skeins of silk were cleaned, spun and twisted for strength. The thread was woven into fabric elsewhere. Originally powered by a water wheel, a steam engine was added later. In 1840 the mill employed more children than adults, most of them drawn from the London workhouses. It eventually closed in 1898 after which the top two storeys and the chimneys were removed. The building has had a variety of uses since and is now a business park.
Gerald Massey, an acclaimed poet who worked here as a child, penned these lines about the mill:
"Come, little Children," the Mill-bell rings,
and drowsily they run,
Little old Men and Women, and human
worms who have spun
The life of Infancy into silk; and fed, Child,
Mother, and Wife,
The factory's smoke of torment, with the
fuel of human life.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 22 Apr 2021
0.04 miles
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Terraced Housing, Kingsley Walk, Tring
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.05 miles
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Early Morning, Brook Street, Tring
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Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.06 miles
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Co-operative Store, Silk Mill, Tring
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.07 miles
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Co-operative Store, Silk Mill, Tring
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.07 miles
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Co-operative Store, Silk Mill, Tring
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.07 miles
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Co-operative Store, Silk Mill, Tring
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.07 miles
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Massey House, Brook Street, Tring
Massey House is named after Tring's poet, Gerald Massey (1828-1907) - http://Gerald-Massey.org.uk - who as an eight-year old child was put to work at the Tring's Silk Mill, which is also in Brook Street.
Image: © Gerald Massey
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.09 miles