Glasshouses Mill
at High and Low Bishopside, Pateley Bridge, Yorks, close to the River Nidd.
Built for flax spinning in 1812, on the site of a corn mill. Enlarged in the 1830s, in 1844 and in the 1860s and 1870s by the Metcalfe family. The mill had its own gas plant, initially constructed in 1864. The mill's large 1851 Fairbairn waterwheel has been relocated to Quarry Bank Mill. Steam engine added in 1857, water turbine installed in 1871. The Metcalfes also built Glasshouses village, with a school and chapel.[1]
The Metcalfes were variously John and George Metcalfe and Metcalfe and Shann (1902). George died in 1903.
1912 The mill was taken over by a Mr Atkinson of Folly Gill [F. Atkinson and Sons].[2]
Frederick John Atkinson, hemp spinner, died on 28 October 1929.