INDUSTRY
THE TEXTILE MILLS
WATER POWERED MILLS
In order, starting at the highest.
Most were later converted to Steam.
Spring Mill
Square Mill
Lumb Mill
Wainstalls Mill
Jowler Mill
Holme House Mill
Peel House Mill
STEAM POWERED MILLS
Oats Royd Mill
Established in 1847 by John Murgatroyd
The mill was closed in 1982.
The following are newspapper cutting about the mill:
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Potential use of mill as a 'healing centre'.
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'Thumbs up' for forty new flats
Pepper Hill Mill
THE PAPER MILL
DEAN MILL Booth, demolished in 1921?
THE CORN MILLS
Here is a link to The Cornmill
FACTORIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Lindley's
Lindley's was based in the village from 1899 when they occupied Upper Mill, formerly a Corn Mill. They renamed these buildings The Beauvoir Works. The buildings were demolished in 1975 Lindley's expanded and took over Lower Mill and the land next to it now occupied by Blue Bell Walk. They continued manufacturing nuts and bolts and Industrial Fastenings in the village until the mid-1970's.