Tan<\/a>nery<\/span><\/h3>\nThis was an 18thC business run by the brothers Elias and Peter Lomas. It was located where Brook House<\/a> is today, on Wellington Road<\/a>. The mill was water powered. The process also uses a lot of water, and tanneries were notorious for polluting their local watercourse, as well as being most unpleasantly odorous.<\/span><\/p>\nPeter Lomas went on to build the first Waterhouse mill<\/a> on the site behind the tannery. It is not known whether they kept the tannery going once the cotton mill was running.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nTurner <\/a>Heath mill<\/span><\/h3>\nThis mill was located behind Turner Heath House<\/a>, in Bollington Road<\/a>, when Philip Antrobus<\/a> lived there in the 1820s. Just a part of a wall remains. We know that in 1832 it comprised a warehouse, dye house, weaving shop, engine house, and steam engine. This was detailed in an Act of Parliament<\/a>![](\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" "\\"Going")
used to modify Philip Antrobus\u2019s Will. However, we do not know whether it was for cotton or silk.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nHome <\/a>weaving<\/h3>\nThere are a number of cottages in Bollington that were clearly built with a garret (attic) floor to be used for home working, usually weaving. There are some examples in Water Street<\/a>, as well as the cottages at the bottom of Beeston Brow<\/a>. Silk weaving was carried on at cottages in Clarke Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFulling <\/a>mill \/ Waulk mill<\/h3>\nFulling and waulking are processes applied to the preparation and cleaning of wool prior to spinning it into thread. This mill almost certainly pre-dates the cotton industry in Bollington. While there is evidence that there was a fulling mill in the valley of the river Dean, there is none to show where it was! The most likely location is somewhere up Ingersley Vale<\/a>, near to the houses there which carry the name of Waulk mill. There is a high probability that the two processes were carried out in the same or adjacent premises.<\/p>\n
\nNeaves<\/a> hat factory<\/h3>\nThis was located in Higher mill<\/a>, just one of the many businesses that have been located there over the years.<\/p>\n\nYour Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n
Peter Lomas went on to build the first Waterhouse mill<\/a> on the site behind the tannery. It is not known whether they kept the tannery going once the cotton mill was running.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nTurner <\/a>Heath mill<\/span><\/h3>\nThis mill was located behind Turner Heath House<\/a>, in Bollington Road<\/a>, when Philip Antrobus<\/a> lived there in the 1820s. Just a part of a wall remains. We know that in 1832 it comprised a warehouse, dye house, weaving shop, engine house, and steam engine. This was detailed in an Act of Parliament<\/a> used to modify Philip Antrobus\u2019s Will. However, we do not know whether it was for cotton or silk.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nHome <\/a>weaving<\/h3>\nThere are a number of cottages in Bollington that were clearly built with a garret (attic) floor to be used for home working, usually weaving. There are some examples in Water Street<\/a>, as well as the cottages at the bottom of Beeston Brow<\/a>. Silk weaving was carried on at cottages in Clarke Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFulling <\/a>mill \/ Waulk mill<\/h3>\nFulling and waulking are processes applied to the preparation and cleaning of wool prior to spinning it into thread. This mill almost certainly pre-dates the cotton industry in Bollington. While there is evidence that there was a fulling mill in the valley of the river Dean, there is none to show where it was! The most likely location is somewhere up Ingersley Vale<\/a>, near to the houses there which carry the name of Waulk mill. There is a high probability that the two processes were carried out in the same or adjacent premises.<\/p>\n
\nNeaves<\/a> hat factory<\/h3>\nThis was located in Higher mill<\/a>, just one of the many businesses that have been located there over the years.<\/p>\n\nYour Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n
used to modify Philip Antrobus\u2019s Will. However, we do not know whether it was for cotton or silk.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nHome <\/a>weaving<\/h3>\nThere are a number of cottages in Bollington that were clearly built with a garret (attic) floor to be used for home working, usually weaving. There are some examples in Water Street<\/a>, as well as the cottages at the bottom of Beeston Brow<\/a>. Silk weaving was carried on at cottages in Clarke Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nFulling <\/a>mill \/ Waulk mill<\/h3>\nFulling and waulking are processes applied to the preparation and cleaning of wool prior to spinning it into thread. This mill almost certainly pre-dates the cotton industry in Bollington. While there is evidence that there was a fulling mill in the valley of the river Dean, there is none to show where it was! The most likely location is somewhere up Ingersley Vale<\/a>, near to the houses there which carry the name of Waulk mill. There is a high probability that the two processes were carried out in the same or adjacent premises.<\/p>\n
\nNeaves<\/a> hat factory<\/h3>\nThis was located in Higher mill<\/a>, just one of the many businesses that have been located there over the years.<\/p>\n\nYour Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n
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Fulling <\/a>mill \/ Waulk mill<\/h3>\nFulling and waulking are processes applied to the preparation and cleaning of wool prior to spinning it into thread. This mill almost certainly pre-dates the cotton industry in Bollington. While there is evidence that there was a fulling mill in the valley of the river Dean, there is none to show where it was! The most likely location is somewhere up Ingersley Vale<\/a>, near to the houses there which carry the name of Waulk mill. There is a high probability that the two processes were carried out in the same or adjacent premises.<\/p>\n
\nNeaves<\/a> hat factory<\/h3>\nThis was located in Higher mill<\/a>, just one of the many businesses that have been located there over the years.<\/p>\n\nYour Historic Documents<\/h3>\r\n
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