Recorded around 1913, when
Willie Turner worked here
Cotton mill built about 1833 for John Haigh & Brothers.
It is the second oldest mill in Halifax.
Owners and tenants have included
The buildings were damaged by fire in
1996.
In 2003, it was converted into flats
There was a paper mill here [1758]
Matthew Maude and Alfred Maude had woollen manufacturing business
here.
The building is in a parlous condition
Owners and tenants have included
Owners and tenants have included
The mill was demolished in 1876.
See
Gauxholme Mill
In 183?, the mill was demolished and rebuilt a short distance away to
accommodate the viaduct to carry the new railway.
Dugdale & Lello were occupying Gauxholme Mill when it
was destroyed by fire on
15th December 1899.
The cause of the outbreak was unknown.
The mill was manufacturing webbing straps for the cotton
industry at the time, and it has been said that a member of the
Cockcroft family – who were involved in a competitive business of
making leather straps – set the fire to the mill and then
escaped to America, possibly under the name Cocroft.
The fire caused an estimated £3,000 damage, having gutted the
building and destroying an unusually large and valuable stock.
The mill was not insured and was never rebuilt.
See
Picker
On
5th July 1940,
when the mill was used only for storage by Universal Stores,
Manchester, the building was destroyed by fire
Around 1861, it was steam powered and a weaving shed was added.
Production at the mill ceased around 1894.
In 1902, the Gibson family converted the building and leased it for
use as the Lord Holme Restaurant, an eating house, a dance hall, a
roller-skating arena, and a boy scout centre, finally closing in
the 1970s.
Abraham Gibson (5) took great care of the site until his death.
In 1951, the Crags, Gibson Mill and Greenwood Lee were given to the National Trust.
In 1971, the Manchester University Settlement proposed to turn
the mill into a holiday centre for children, but this never came
about.
It is still in existence.
The mill, bridge and associated buildings are listed.
See
Toilets at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags,
Gibson Mill Toll Gate,
Billy Holt,
Mill, Murder & Railway and
Nicholas Nickleby
See
Beestonhirst Mill, Ripponden,
Gig mills and
Gig Mill Spinning Company
On
14th June 1900,
the works were damaged by fire
In May 2008, there was a proposal to build 28 houses on the site
The mill burned down and was not rebuilt
Water-powered mill – on the Midgelden Beck – built in 1805 as a
fulling and woollen perching mill.
It was popularly known as the Greasy Factory.
Later, it was used for cotton spinning.
Steam-power was introduced in 1838.
Owners and tenants have included
Abraham Ormerod's [1824 to 1870]
and
Peter Ormerod.
The mill was unoccupied until it was demolished in 1894
There were fires at the mill on
19th May 1863,
11th March 1873,
and
1928
The property was divided into Gosport Mills and Gosport Old
Mills.
The mills were demolished.
Houses – Grange Close – were built on the site [1975]
Owners and tenants have included
On
19th February 1877,
Patrick Kelly died after being injured as he was hoisting a
stone at the quarry
Aka Grange Iron Works.
5-storey mill.
The name of Mytholmroyd Mill was changed in 1836 when
William Horsfall occupied and rebuilt the mill.
On
13th September 1892,
the mill was occupied by William Horsfall & Sons when it was
destroyed by fire.
The remaining 165 ft tall chimney was demolished on 16th July 1898.
In the 1890s, Thomas Pickles bought the site and set up an
iron foundry.
Thomas Henry Pickles was here in 1905.
The site was later occupied by Broadbent Machine Tools Limited.
A medical centre now stands on the site
The mill has been was demolished
2 men were killed when a boiler exploded on
2nd April 1841
On 27th July 1828, 3 petrified horns were found here in a bed of
stone 7½ ft thick.
They were about 2 ft long and 9 inches in circumference at the
thickest part.
When found, they were soft and became hard on exposure to the air
A small water-powered wool carding and drawing factory established by
the Helliwell family of Todmorden,
Michael Helliwell,
John Helliwell,
and
Thomas Helliwell
The mill became a private house
This is the earliest known woollen mill in Yorkshire which carried
out the complete processing of the material.
In 1791, Joseph Crowther worked for Greenup's, as reported
in Crabtree's Tour of Calder Dale.
It was destroyed by fire on
17th May 1867.
It was demolished in 1990
On
6th January 1830,
the mill was destroyed by fire.
It employed more than 400 workmen at the time
Built on the Black Brook.
A branch of the Bradford Dyers' Association.
Recorded on
16th November 1894
when the workers of Hawkesley, Wild & Company were on strike.
Owners and tenants have included
See
Ellistones Mill, Elland and
George William Hawkesley
Bedford's grandson George Bedford Whitaker was running the brewery
[1905].
The brewery owned several local pubs including
Shoulder of Mutton, Hebden Bridge,
Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge [1859],
White Lion, Heptonstall,
General Rawdon, Luddendenfoot,
Delvers' Arms, Midgley,
Bird-i-th-Hand, Warland,
Poultry Dealers Arms, Todmorden,
and
Town Hall, Sowerby Bridge.
The brewery used a gas engine supplied by the Campbell Gas Engine Company Limited.
An 1885 advertisement announced
In 1905, the brewery and its houses were sold to
Whitaker's.
It closed in 1906.
The Brewery is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Harvey & Company
Recorded in November 1881, when
the partnership of
George Powell,
Mary Eliza Halliday,
Martha Elizabeth Fairlamb,
Leonard Storey,
Elizabeth Gibbs,
and
Eliza Sykes
- logwood grinders- was dissolved
It closed as a textile mill in 1900
There is a datestone 1864.
In 1860, 40 lots of land for the erection of mill premises was
offered for sale by the Armytage family.
Grove Mills was one of the first to be built.
The mills were damaged by fire on
4th January 1880,
and on
17th March 1909.
The mill is now [2017] used by a number of small businesses
There was a disastrous fire here in 1864 during the tenancy of
Ormerod & Sugden
On
3rd December 1832,
there are reports of the mill being blown down.
The mills were destroyed by fire on
11th October 1881,
and again on
20th July 1905.
See
Grove Mill Company, Ovenden
It is now a private house
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The mill partly burnt down in
and in
1871.
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The Electric Light has just been introduced on the premises – the
only brewery in the neighbourhood at which it has been applied,
and giving an opportunity of selecting beer under the severest test
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