Bleakhills Mill, Mansfield
From Graces Guide
of Mansfield, Notts
1836 'BALLOON. — We understand that Mr. Septimus Sneath, of the Bleak-hills Mill, Mansfield has nearly manufactured a large balloon, and purposes making his first ascent with it from that town this summer. Success attend his enterprising ingenuity.'[1]. Charles Dickens would have been pleased to have invented such a name and address.
There were several mills in the area known as Bleakhills, south west of Mansfield. The 1886 OS map (1877-8 survey) shows a small Cotton Doubling Mill on Sheepbridge Lane, immediately adjacent to Bleakhills Foundry. These premises were served by a large mill pond. A short distance along the lane to the west was another cotton doubling mill, served by a smaller pond on the River Maund.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties - Friday 10 June 1836