Heyrod Mills, Stalybridge
near Stalybridge
1841 Advert: 'TO BE LET, with immediate possession, HEYROD MILLS, advantageously situated on the banks of the River Tame, Huddersfield Canal, and the new turnpike road leading to Saddleworth, one mile from the populous town Stalybridge, and eight from Manchester. These mills are worked by a very powerful iron water wheel, made, at great expense, a few years since, by Messrs. Fairbairn and Lillie, with an auxiliary steam-engine by Messrs. Peel and Williams, to assist in times of drought. They have been always applied to the spinning of cotton yarn, and are well adapted for a first-rate doubling or thread concern. The machinery at present in the mills comprises 60 throstles and 24 mules, with full preparation for the same......'[1]
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- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1 May 1841