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Dist:0.2km<br/>The covered loading bay at the west end of the mill with a fine pair of cast iron gatepost by the local firm of Walker & Smith
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from Fields New Road. Modern industry is on a much smaller scale here.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The approach off Fields New Road with the tower (part of the original building) and office block (a later addition).
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Although imposing, this early tower does not show the richness of detailing that appears on many later mills.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>I'm stood on a fence to look over a taller fence. Good result though. I'm on the edge of the site of Mona Mill, now a housing estate (aaagh!). Chadderton Mill was designed by P S Stott for the Chadderton Mill Co and built in 1885 (name and date on top end of engine house). In 1915 there were 102,456 spindles turned by a 1100 hp Hick, Hargreaves engine. This is one of the few mills to retain a lodge but it is lost in foreground clutter.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is now in multiple occupancy and showing signs of distress. In its heyday it was powered by a monstrous twin beam triple expansion engine (6 cylinders in total). I felt naughty and nervous - not because of the mill but because of the children bottom left.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>There would originally have been terraced housing on the green area in the foreground.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Courtyard along the east front. There are blocked-up openings in the wall to the left which are probably World War II air raid shelters.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The engine house is back left. Part of the mill had been reduced in height to the right of the tower. I don't know if the metal work on top of the tower had originally been clad.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Shot across old housing stock from hard-standing by Nile Mill.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Nile Mill (left) and Chadderton Mill (right) with a new estate in the centre on the site of Mona Mill.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Never mind "Dark Satanic Mills" I prefer "Britain's bread hangs by Lancashire's thread". Cotton spinning mill that was powered by a very large beam engine. No longer used for textiles and with a truncated chimney.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Nice view on the truncated chimney and bricked up engine house with the mill's name and date on the large stone capping. This street is on the site of Mona Mill. There's a guy sat in the BMW who was decidedly suspicious of my activities.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Includes the truncated chimney and derelict engine house. This mill is showing visible distress despite being massively constructed.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Archetypal northern industrial town scenery - terraced houses with a textile mill looming in the background. The elements of this photo that show that it is from the modern era are a) the factory chimney has been shortened -it would have had a decorative cap, b) the lack of chimney pots on the housing and c) the speed hump on the road. Despite the serried ranks of terraced houses, this road predates the urbanisation of the area.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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