Following hot on the heels of @MotionlessMike 's post, I had also made plans to visit here on a trek up to the north recently. I will echo what I said in his excellent thread, it's a real mixed bag here - the largest most imposing buildings, the Victoria and Albert Mills, are a disappointing mess of chopped up spaces filled with smaller rooms and old tat, but the old weaving shed areas are much nicer with some more original features and much more natural decay as opposed to damage done by morons.
There isn't much history considering it's size, but in an abridged form it was constructed between 1830 and 1870, including weaving sheds, engine houses and other buildings, and cotton production closed in the 1960s with it then being rented out to numerous smaller businesses resulting in the internal layouts becoming, shall I say, a bit of a mess. The chimney was demolished in the 1980s and the mill pond became part of Etherow Country Park, which the mill now backs on to. The buildings have been left derelict for varying amounts of time, with the largest buildings still in relatively un-decayed condition, and the weaving sheds and various other buildings much more decayed.
There were all sorts of businesses working from here after it closed as a cotton mill, from small scale textile manufacturing, retail, a cafe, photography studio and a funeral directors.
Overall definitely worth a look if you're in the area.
Thanks for looking
There isn't much history considering it's size, but in an abridged form it was constructed between 1830 and 1870, including weaving sheds, engine houses and other buildings, and cotton production closed in the 1960s with it then being rented out to numerous smaller businesses resulting in the internal layouts becoming, shall I say, a bit of a mess. The chimney was demolished in the 1980s and the mill pond became part of Etherow Country Park, which the mill now backs on to. The buildings have been left derelict for varying amounts of time, with the largest buildings still in relatively un-decayed condition, and the weaving sheds and various other buildings much more decayed.
There were all sorts of businesses working from here after it closed as a cotton mill, from small scale textile manufacturing, retail, a cafe, photography studio and a funeral directors.
Overall definitely worth a look if you're in the area.
Thanks for looking
