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Lichens Crescent, OLDHAM, OL8 2NS

Remains of No.2 mill on Dowry Street, resulting from the destruction by fire in April 2009.

One of two separate cotton spinning mills sharing a lodge (cooling pond) and part of the same outfit. The stone wall is the dam that retained the lodge that had been filled in by then. No. 2 mill later suffered a disastrous fire and the sorry remains lingered for some years. The site has now been cleared and only the stone dam remains on Google Maps.

No.1 mill seen from Dowry Street. The wall is the dam for the lodge.

The tower of No.2 mill, still standing after the fire of April 2009, which has nevertheless left its mark. The tower still carries cellphone transmitters, so may well remain.

The remaining west wall of No.2 mill, destroyed by fire in April 2009.

This former cotton spinning mill was largely destroyed by fire in 2009 and the site has since been cleared.

The remains of the west wall and the huge mound of rubble resulting from the devastating fire of April 2009. This shows to good effect the layout of the end of the building. The blank walls left would have housed toilets and the access to the main staircase in the tower. Then comes an open circulating space in front of the goods lift, the sliding doors to which can be clearly seen. Beyond this is the rope race. Various metal frames can be seen built into the brickwork which would have carried bearings for the line-shafting, oil from which has stained the walls. The shafts would have had pulleys attached inside the rope race, driven directly by ropes running round the flywheel of the steam engine.

The remains of No.2 mill seen from Groby Street. The arched windows are the engine house.

Sorry about the slope. The stone wall contains the lodge (now in-filled). Form follows function beautifully with a vertical sided square corner pillar between two concave stone buttress walls. This solves the problem of where to put water on a hill. Of course mills by watercourses did not necessarily need lodges