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In its early years, the mill was run by John Greenwood – where he was involved in the manufacture of paper and
wool cards – and then jointly with his father-in-law Richard Hinchliffe.
Today, only ruins remain for the mill itself, atop a bridging
platform that supported part of the mill above the brook.
The mill pond for the waterwheel can still be seen.
The waterwheel has been restored.
A set of 3 terraced dwellings near to the mill have been converted
into what is now known as Paper Mill Cottage.
This may be the Mill advertised in
the Halifax Courier [18th August 1877]
The diameter of the water wheel is 23 feet 6ins and the width 10 feet
6 ins. The steam power is a 30 horse power condensing steam engine.
To be Sold by Auction at the White Horse Hotel, Hebden Bridge on 22nd
August 1877
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Memories of Cragg Vale Paper Mill
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Owners and tenants have included
Paper Mill was the name for an area of Halifax
See
Park Lodge, Northowram and
Park Villa, Northowram
Woollen mill at Lister Street, Halifax [1851].
It was later used for worsted and silk production.
Around 1890, the land and buildings were acquired by Halifax
Corporation to house the Halifax Electric Company
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Was this how the Colliers' Arms pub got its name?
One of the Mount Tabor Quarries.
Sutcliffe's went out of business in 1912, and cotton spinners
Benjamin Whiteley & Sons Limited took over
Steam-powered fustian and cotton weaving mill built in 1858.
A single-storey building with 2 reservoirs.
The original intent was that it should be let to tenants.
It was bought by John and William Wilcock of The Wilcock Patent Cord & Calico Manufacturing Company Limited.
It was considerably extended by 1870.
It was rebuilt after a fire in
1873.
Around 1913, Cords Limited had business here.
The mill was acquired by the Central Dyeing Company Limited.
This was the last fustian weaving mill in Britain when it finally
closed on 23rd October 1998.
The mill, the engine house, the weaving shed and the 375-ft tall
chimney date from 1840 to 1858 and are listed
Starting in 2005, the mill was converted into flats.
During the restoration work, builders found a time capsule
containing
a half smoked cigar,
a bottle of Bass Pale Ale bottled by Marshall Brothers,
and
two Victorian novels about life in Victorian London entitled
Anonyma: a tale of Female Life and Adventure and
Skittles
In 1833, workers here were recorded as working a 78-hour week.
Of 48 workers at the mill, 37 were children under the age of 16.
The Plug Rioters attacked the mill on 15th August 1842.
The mills were demolished in 19??.
See
Cold Edge Dam Company,
Sam Murgatroyd and
William Henry Murgatroyd
Aka Sour Hall Mill.
Around 1830, it was a picker making factory built and operated by
brothers John and Thomas Holt.
Around 1875, became Sourhall Isolation Hospital.
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Picker
On
8th September 1883,
there was a file at the mill
The Yorkshire Post [29th October 1910] reported
The engine was for sale and described as:
Pepper Bank Mill [1854] and Church Bank Mill
[1894] stood on the same site.
One of the Cragg mills owned by the Hinchliffe family
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2 mill ponds were built around 1850.
One is now filled in.
The remaining pond is on the Mill House estate at Rails Lane.
Owners and tenants have included
The Mill closed in the early 1900s.
It was disused by 1907.
It was bought by the Murgatroyd family in the 1920s.
It was in ruins by 1946.
The stone was sold and the land was used for housing
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In 1926, it was taken over by Sam Bradley.
The business closed in 1958
In 1986, Ardeth Engineering Limited acquired the land and assets
when Lumb's went into receivership
Owners and tenants have included
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The new mill was built by Sugden and named because he
attributed his success to his own perseverance.
An inscription reads
The mill stands alongside the canal and became Sugden's first
steam-powered mill.
The mill was attacked during the Plug Riots of August 1842.
The mill was then occupied by a succession of businesses including
a gym
and
a furniture showroom.
A part of the mill was demolished in 1964 to become what is now
Bethel Street car park,
The rest of the building was converted to the Waterfront
hotel/restaurant [summer 2000].
Around 2005, the building was joined to the neighbouring Wheelers' Club and the entrance to the mill yard was filled in.
Question:
There may be some confusion between this and Perseverance Mill, Brighouse
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Brighouse Mechanics' Institute
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In 2005, there was a proposal to convert the mill to offices and
apartments.
On
17th August 2008,
the mill was badly damaged by fire
On
13th January 1904,
there was a fire at the mill which was then said to be
During World War II, the mill was used as a detention barracks for
British soldiers.
It could accommodate up to 750 men at one time.
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Prospect Mills, Sowerby Bridge
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Built by Jonathan Barker [about 1860].
Owners and tenants have included
The Halifax Guardian of 14th March 1863 reported
On [Tuesday, 10th March 1863] as one of the sons of Mr Jonathan
Barker, millwright, etc., of Mill Wood, and one of the workmen were
engaged in loading a cannon, which was at the time not quite cool, it
burst, and some of the fragments struck them in the face, but
fortunately their injuries were not serious
On
6th November 1879,
there was a fire at the works.
The property was on both sides of Phoenix Street.
Only that on the east side remains.
In
1857,
the building was damaged by fire.
Run by John Sharp [1881].
See
Alphonse Sharp
It later became Broadbent's Foundry
The quarry has been filled in
It was later known as West End Works
Recorded in 1911
Owners and tenants have included
The mill was destroyed by fire on the morning of
3rd September 1865,
when it was occupied by Messrs Sugden
Stone quarries.
They are still in use [2017].
Part of the Granny Hall Estate.
Opened in 1874.
On
6th November 1890,
Abraham Longbottom was killed at the Quarry as he was
unloading stone off a wagon.
Production at the Quarry ceased in 1942.
The quarry is still there but unused.
There are plans to develop the site [October 2008, November 2017]
On
19th April 1907,
there was a fire at the mill
See
William Richardson & Son and
George Henry Wadsworth
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Halifax Bowl
Question:
Can anyone identify which Priestley ran the mill?
There was a dam at Durn and another smaller dam behind the workshop
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Samuel Baines
Built for Ormerod Brothers Limited.
It was owned by Foulds & Ridings Limited on
20th April 1984
when it was damaged by fire
Owners and tenants have included
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Stood opposite Holmeroyd Mill.
Built after 1910
Recorded in December 1854, when
Henry Mitchell of Boston Hill advertised the
property to be let.
It included a newly-erected weaving shed, capable of holding 120
looms with 10 hp condensing engine and 20 hp boiler (only 18 months
old).
Coal and labour were said to be readily available.
Subsequent owners and tenants have included
Built on the Black Brook.
The building was destroyed by fire in
9th May 1873
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Perseverance Mills, Sowerby Bridge
Owners and tenants have included
The mill was destroyed by fire in
19th November 1941
Pancreol Mill, Ripponden Ref 15-216 Paper Mill, Cragg Vale Ref 15-228
Property called PAPER MILL being 5 storeys high, also the Reservoir
and Water Fall.
Paper Mill, Halifax Ref 15-346
Park Brewery, Northowram Ref 15-P7 Park Loom Mill, Todmorden Moor Ref 15-329 Park Mill, Halifax Ref 15-1335 Park Mill, Sowerby Bridge Ref 15-688
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Park Nook Mine, Elland Ref 15-799
Park Nook Mine, Southowram Ref 15-1289 Park Print Works, Halifax Ref 15-566
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Park Quarry, Lightcliffe Ref 15-419
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Park Quarry, Pellon Ref 15-924
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Park Road Mills, Elland Ref 15-P427
Park Works, Halifax Ref 15-155
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Parker's Old Corn Mill Ref 15-519 Pearson Brow Quarry, Hipperholme Ref 15-523
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Pecket Well Mill Ref 15-P166 
Peel Croft Factory, Elland Ref 15-1118 Peel House Mill, Luddenden Ref 15-P395
Owners and tenants have included
Peel Mill, Todmorden Ref 15-237 
Pelicon Metal Works, Halifax Ref 15-934
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Pellon Lane Cabinet Works, Halifax Ref 15-667
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Pellon Lane Mills, Halifax Ref 15-P430
This may be a local name for another mill – (possibly) Martin's Mill, Halifax
Pellon Lane Saw Mills, Halifax Ref 15-657
Owners and tenants of the mills have included
Pendleton Mill, Elland Ref 15-P428
Owners and tenants of the mills have included
South Lane Mills, Elland & Pendleton Mills, Elland to be sold:
South Lane with one and two storey buildings and a weaving shed
and Pendleton Mill with two and one storey buildings, boiler and
engine houses and chimney.
Motive power is a 400 ihp horizontal tandem compound condensing steam
engine, two double flued Lancashire boilers 30 ft. long each and a
Green's economiser.
This & associated entries use material contributed by Geoff Shackleton & Suzanne WillePepper Bank Mill, Cragg Vale Ref 15-224 Pepper Hill Mill, Luddenden Ref 15-265
Pepper Hill Pottery Ref 15-P78 Perseverance Brass & Iron Works, Brighouse Ref 15-285 Perseverance Engine Works, Elland Ref 15-472
Perseverance Mill, Brighouse Ref 15-1377
Perseverance Mill, Brighouse Ref 15-P306
PERSEVERANCE MILL ERECTED 1831
Subsequent owners and tenants of the mill have included
Perseverance Mill, Elland Ref 15-P429
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Perseverance Mills, Sowerby Bridge Ref 15-462
Owners and tenants of the mills have included
Messrs Shepherd & Blackburn's new mill
Perseverance Works, Halifax Ref 15-208
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Perseverance Works, Halifax Ref 15-959
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Perseverance Works, Stansfield Ref 15-69
Pheasant Pit, Hartshead Ref 15-1135 Phoebe Lane Mills, Halifax Ref 15-42
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Phoenix Foundry, Brighouse Ref 15-969
Owners and tenants of the foundry have included
Phoenix Iron Foundry, Halifax Ref 15-919
Owners and tenants of the foundry have included
Phoenix Iron Works, Todmorden Ref 15-1315
Accident at Millwood
This & associated entries use material contributed by Linda BriggsPhoenix Mill, Brighouse Ref 15-P380
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Phoenix Punch & Shear Works, Todmorden Ref 15-90 Phoenix Works, Halifax Ref 15-958
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Phoenix Works, Todmorden Ref 15-711
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Pickle Bridge Dye Works Ref 15-1361 Pickles Foundry, Mytholmroyd Ref 15-354
Pinder's Iron Foundry, Brighouse Ref 15-1194 Pinfold Quarries, Norland Ref 15-730
Owners and tenants of the quarries have included
Pinfold Quarry, Elland Ref 15-771
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Pinnar Lane Quarry, Southowram Ref 15-767
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Pioneer Iron Works, Halifax Ref 15-157
Pioneer Mill, Walsden Ref 15-331 Pioneer Quarry, Southowram Ref 15-200 Pioneer Works, Boothtown Ref 15-1393
Pitchforth's Mill, Elland Ref 15-547 Plantation Mine, Holmfield Ref 15-1275 Platts Pit, Clifton Ref 15-788 Pond Oil Works, Brighouse Ref 15-485 Pond Quarries, Hove Edge Ref 15-1412 Pond Quarry, Brighouse Ref 15-700
Owners and tenants of the quarry have included
Portsmouth Mill, Todmorden Ref 15-91
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Premier Cabinet Works, Todmorden Ref 15-1449 Premier Works, Halifax Ref 15-674
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Pressure Gauge Works, Halifax Ref 15-1109 Presto Supermarket Ref 15-1373 Priestley's Mill, Sowerby Ref 15-P226
Priestwell Millwright Works, Todmorden Ref 15-1316
This & associated entries use material contributed by Linda BriggsPrince Albert Mill, Brighouse Ref 15-P305 Prince of Wales Mill, Rastrick Ref 15-P417 Princess Works, Rastrick Ref 15-1364 Prospect Dye Works, Brighouse Ref 15-1270 Prospect Iron Works, Halifax Ref 15-832
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Prospect Mill, Hebden Bridge Ref 15-1197
Prospect Mill, Ovenden Ref 15-392
Owners and tenants of the mills have included
Prospect Mill, West Vale Ref 15-P1670
Owners and tenants of the mills have included
Prospect Mills, Sowerby Bridge Ref 15-P167
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Prospect Works, Bailiff Bridge Ref 15-1384
Providence Chemical Works, Siddal Ref 15-576
Owners and tenants of the works have included
Providence Mill, Elland Ref 15-471
Owners and tenants of the mill have included
Providence Soap Works, Halifax Ref 15-891
Owners and tenants of the works have included