{"id":3968,"date":"2017-07-24T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3968"},"modified":"2020-04-17T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:01:14","slug":"owlhurst","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3968","title":{"rendered":"Owlhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"headln\"><span class=\"style1\">Whitaker&#8217;s Bag mill or Bannister&#8217;s furniture factory<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4316 size-full\" title=\"The Owlhurst in Turner Street, a c.2010 picture - we don't have anything earlier!\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/whittakers7899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">This little mill is located in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2413\">Turner Street<\/a>, off&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2216\">Church Street<\/a>. Just three floors high, The Owlhurst has been used by Whitaker to make bags or sacks, such as flour bags, and in the 20thC, by Bannister Brothers to manufacture furniture and woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>It was owned around 1836 by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5091\">Edward Sheldon<\/a>. It has been suggested that the street was at that time known as Owlhurst Street.<\/p>\n<p>The building was burnt out in the 1990s and subsequently converted into domestic units.<\/p>\n<h3>Listed building&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100px; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/whittakers7899.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4316 size-medium\" title=\"Owlhurst mill, Turner Street\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/whittakers7899-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 10px; vertical-align: top;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/listing\/the-list\/list-entry\/1138970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Owlhurst (mill)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; II, c.1865; Formerly Whittaker&#8217;s flour bag mill, later Bannister&#8217;s Joinery Workshop; late 20thC gutted by fire, before conversion to domestic.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\n<h3>Your Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n<p>Please don't chuck out those historic documents and pictures!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4157\">Find out why here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitaker&#8217;s Bag mill or Bannister&#8217;s furniture factory This little mill is located in&nbsp;Turner Street, off&nbsp;Church Street. Just three floors high, The Owlhurst has been used by Whitaker to make bags or sacks, such as flour bags, and in the 20thC, by Bannister Brothers to manufacture furniture and woodwork. It was owned around 1836 by&nbsp;Edward Sheldon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3935,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3968","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13675,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions\/13675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}