in Bridgnorth
1862 Business for sale. '...a FREEHOLD ESTATE comprising the extensive WORSTED SPINNING MILLS and WEAVING FACTORY, known as the 'Pale Meadow Mills,' occupied for a series of years by Messrs. Grierson, situate in Spital-street, near the river Severn, in the Low Town, Bridgnorth, consisting of a fire-proof Spinning Mill, 160 feet by 90 feet; very substantially-built Factory and Weaving-rooms, four stories high, 205 feet long, by 20 feet wide; large range of Offices, Storerooms. Sheds, and two Engine-houses, with a 12-horse power and a 20-horse power Condensing Engine, by Boulton and Watt, supplied by water from the river Severn; Gasworks complete; Brick-built COTTAGES for workmen, and various other appurtenances ; the whole containing, with the site of the buildings, about three acres of land. Also, all the valuable and extensive MACHINERY, consisting of 34 spinning frames. 96 to 128 spindles each ; 30 doubling and redoubling frames, to 64 spindles each ; nine large carding frames, 31 inches to inches on the wire ; nine delivery frames, three sets of preparing frames. 11 roving boxes, one wool teazer, one dandy roving box, by Carter and Holmes; one four-spindle screw gill, by Smith; two back washing machines, with steam rollers, by Farrar and Son; four gill hackles, with balling motion ; three rake washing machine, by Petrie and Taylor; wool drier, by Petrie; together with the iron shafts, drums, leather bands, iron creels, universal pullies, extra wheels, lathes, smiths’ tools, weighing machines, circular saw, wood and iron patterns fluting machine, steam pipes, gas fittings, iron pumps, tin cans, wood bobbins, wool baskets, sheets, factory bell, clock, the furniture In twenty offices including two iron safes, with numerous loose articles and effects, inventory of which will be produced at the time of sale. The premises are built in a very substantial manner, and the machinery of all descriptions is in good working order and fit for immediate use. The whole premises are enclosed within a spacious yard. These premises may a comparatively small outlay be converted into a Brewery, much required in the district, or other manufacturing establishments, for which there are great facilities of transit the river Severn and the Severn Valley Railway. Being in the centre of an agricultural district, labour is plentiful and cheap...'[1]
1888 Mill re-equipped. The engines were restored by J. and W. McNaught.[2]
1892 Letter from W. R. Greatwich of Pale Meadow Mills.[3]