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Dist:0.1km<br/>Small roundabout and petrol station on Featherstall Road North, at North Moor.
©David Dixon
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©Alex McGregor
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©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Named after the mills on the right hand side. These are the oldest part of Osborne (No.1) Mill, clearly indicated by the architectural style with relatively small windows. Several stages of construction are visible. In the distance are the tower and chimney of Manor Mill. The eagle-eyed will be able to make out (on the high resolution version) a bench mark incised into the corner stone just above and to the left of the road name plate.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>No. 2 left, No. 1 right. Not a well known site. The late George Watkins did photograph the No. 2 Mill engine and No. 1 Mill steam turbine.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>The courtyard showing the two engine houses. The further one is the older, but in latter days had the more modern engine. Very unusually this was a steam turbine, almost certainly replacing an earlier engine. The nearer (Mill No.2) housed a 1500 hp Hicks Hargreave cross-compound engine of 1913.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>This back alley in Chadderton is a typical of the kind of red brick terraced housing that is in the Oldham area. No it's not Coronation Street!
©Paul Anderson
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©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pair of mills on Osborne and Waddington Streets. No. 1 (back)was by A H Stott in 1873, extended 1891 and 1900, closed 1968. 66,008 spindles in 1910. No. 2 was by P S Stott in 1912 with 54,720 spindles. Also closed 1968. No. 1 had Petrie engines and then from 1920 a C A Parsons turbine. No. 2 had a 1200 hp Hick, Hargreaves. Now in multiple occupation.
©Chris Allen
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Located at the junction of the A627 Oldham Way and the A6048 Featherstall Road North this 24 hour Tesco fuel station is always busy a litre of diesel cost 99.9 in March 2009. The red brick cotton mill in the top right of the picture is Werneth Ring Mill on Henley Street. A close up shot of a section of the mill can be seen if you look at [[942884]]
©Paul Anderson
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Refurbished mill on Featherstall Road North. The tall window originally lit the engine house, which was internal rather than added on to the building. It housed a beam engine. The small building to the left is the boiler house. The white brick anchor motif in the chimney is unusual - normal practice was simply to show the name. The mill is Listed Grade II.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Mill No.2 (built 1912) seen from the Busk Road open space.
©Alan Murray-Rust
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©Peter Whatley

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