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Broadstone Cotton Mills, Reddish, 1927
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Title Broadstone Cotton Mills, Reddish, 1927
Image reference EPW019181
Date August 1927
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Place name Reddish
Administrative area Stockport
Country England
Easting/Northing 389168, 393074

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  • Correctly referred to in the plural as this building is two mirror image mills operated by the same company, Broadstone Spinning Company Ltd - one from 1906 and the other from 1908. Mule spinning mills.

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:35pm
  • In 1963 the west mill was purchased by GEC and converted to a semiconductor factory. The venture ended in 1964 when GEC and Mullard formed Associated Semiconductor Manufactuers and the mil was sold on.

    TonyM
    Friday 19th October
    4:47pm
  • Now called Broadstone House

    Popeye
    Wednesday 18th July
    10:37pm
  • Broadstone road Reddish

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    Popeye
    Wednesday 18th July
    10:28pm
  • Houldsworth Mill

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:45pm
  • Broadstone Road Bridge, rebuilt 1910

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:44pm
  • Grey Horse pub

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:43pm
  • Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal. To the left Ashton under Lyne. Terminates to the right near Nelstrop Flour Mill on Lancashire Hill. Built about 1797. Filling in of the canal commenced 1962 and there is little to see today. Buildings on the canal line prevent it reopening here.

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:42pm
  • Domed water tower (also on the matching corner)

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:36pm
  • Reddish Green Methodist Church - now a block of flats.

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:27pm
  • St Elisabeths Church, built by the mill owner William Houldsworth for his workers, used the canal and elephants from Belle Vue Zoo to move the stonework.Designer Alfred Waterhouse. Consecrated 1883.

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    totoro
    Monday 2nd July
    1:25pm

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