IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
White Street, LEIGH, WN7 2LF
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This page details the photographs taken nearby to White Street, WN7 2LF by members of the Geograph project.
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Leigh Spinners
This is the western mill (No.2) seen from the Bridgewater Canal.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Sep 2009
0.07 miles
4
White Street and Leigh Spinners Mill
The mill is a very large double mill with the boiler house and chimney between Mills Nos. 1 and 2. This view just shows an end on view of No. 2 Mill with the chimney beyond. This is the best surviving mill complex in Leigh and also houses a large mill steam engine of 1800 horsepower that is now being restored.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.07 miles
5
St Thomas's School Playing Field
View to Leigh Spinners from St Thomas's School playing field.
Image: © SMJ
Taken: 28 Aug 2009
0.08 miles
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Leigh Spinners
No.2 mill engine house and towers.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Sep 2009
0.08 miles
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Leigh Spinners No. 2 Mill
Built for cotton spinning it later became a carpet mill and is still in use as a carpet and artificial turf mill. The building in owned by the Leigh Buildings Preservation Trust and Leigh Spinners use it their part for production for free. A large contract has just been let for much needed roof repairs. The closest section with the large windows is the engine house with a 1800 horsepower cross compound mill engine.
The water in front is the condenser water cooling pond. In the north this is often termed as a mill lodge or mill dam. The word lodge has been known to confuse people who think it refers to a gate house. The current plot line on the TV soap opera Coronation Street (March 2018) involves dead bodies that are clearly in a 'lodge' at a mill that is being developed for housing. However, there is much reference to 'draining the lake'. I'm sure any locals with an interest in mills will be cringing mightily.
The day was freezing with snow flurries interspersed with sun.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 17 Mar 2018
0.09 miles
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Leigh Spinners
Tree growth since Chris Allen's views from the 1980s Image, Image were taken makes it much more difficult to appreciate this impressive double mill.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 18 Sep 2009
0.09 miles
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Leigh Spinners No. 2 mill - rope race
Looking up the multi-storey rope race where power was transmitted by thick cotton ropes from the large engine flywheel (out of sight behind me) to pulleys on each floor to drive the spinning machinery. It is intended to reinstate missing sections of stair case so that one can again look down on the engine from above. Lighting here was extremely difficult and this was about the best I could manage.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 25 Jun 2016
0.09 miles
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Mill engine
View of flywheel/pulley on steam mill engine.
Image: © Mervyn weaver
Taken: 23 Mar 2010
0.09 miles