Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Philip Sidney Stott

From Graces Guide

Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (1858-1937), usually known as Sidney Stott, was an English architect, civil engineer and surveyor.

Born at Wykeham Place Chadderton, Lancashire, the third son of Abraham Henthorn Stott.

He was educated at Oldham High School and then joined the family firm, which had offices in Oldham and Manchester.

1883 Set up his own business, P. S. Stott, specialising in the design of cotton mills. Many of his designs were erected in Lancashire and across the world, especially in India and the Far East.

He benefited from innovations made by his father and Edward Potts, another Oldham architect. His first mill design was for Chadderton Mill in 1885. Sidney Stott designed 22 mills in Oldham and 55 elsewhere in Lancashire.

Later traded as Stott and Sons

List of mills designed by Philip Sidney Stott


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