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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Corner of the Dalton Mills complex
©Alan Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Part of the complex has been cleaned up and made ready for multiple occupancy. A large part remains empty but is apparently about to be adaptively re-used. The chimney is truncated but remains an architectural masterpiece. The cleaned building at its base is almost certainly the house for the large Wm Bracewell beam engine that destroyed itself in 1904.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.5km north<br/>To paraphrase Giles & Goodall - Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930: Large steam powered worsted mill begun in 1866. Originally three ornate mills - Tower Mill 1866 (four storeys attic, nine bays), Genappe Mill, 1868 (3 storeys, 38 bays) and New Mill 1869 (three storeys 33 bays). Also included a long shed, two engine houses, boiler houses, a very ornate chimney (now shortened) and offices. The Mill was owned by I & I Craven (later J & J due to connotations with the other initials during WWI). In 1904 the large double beam engine wrecked itself and two new houses were built for Pollit & Wigzell tandem compound engines. The buildings are described as grouped around a narrow yard and this is it. Hopefully it will remain cobbled (also called setts in Yorkshire). Description added by Chris Allen at photographer's request.
©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.5km north<br/>To paraphrase Giles & Goodall - Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930: Large steam powered worsted mill begun in 1866. Originally three ornate mills - Tower Mill 1866 (four storeys attic, nine bays), Genappe Mill, 1868 (3 storeys, 38 bays) and New Mill 1869 (three storeys 33 bays). Also included a long shed, two engine houses, boiler houses, a very ornate chimney (now shortened) and offices. The Mill was owned by I & I Craven (later J & J due to connotations with the other initials during WWI). In 1904 the large double beam engine wrecked itself and two new houses were built for Pollit & Wigzell tandem compound engines. Description added by Chris Allen at photographer's request.
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This very steep hill still has its stone setts, although some have been lost following road works as in this view looking up at one of the many bends.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Alan Longbottom
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©Alan Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom

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