Hartford Cotton Mill, Oldham, visited with sonyes.
His report can be found here: [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=23757[/ame]
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Cotton spinning mill. 1907. By FW Dixon for the Hartford Mill
(Oldham) Company Ltd. Extended 1920 and 1924.
Probably cast-iron and steel-framed with concrete flooring,
and brick walls with large areas of window.
Steam powered with rope transmission.
4 and 5 storeys accommodating to sloping site, 25 bays long
and 12 bays wide. Corners of main building stressed with wider
pilasters between the windows, otherwise ornamentation
confined to tower which projects from NW corner and rises 2
stages above main roofline, in heavy Baroque style with stone
dressings, including chamfered cornice below lantern-like
upper storey possibly missing former dome.
Additional stair tower in centre of north elevation, with
stone pedimented cornice. Wide windows to each bay, with
panelled pilasters to upper storey only. Present loading bays
in north east range.
Single-storeyed extension to card room along south elevation.
Power transmission at SW of main block, the engine house
projecting and expressed as 5 window range and 3 storeys.
Rope race in western elevation, which has triple central
windows flanked by blind panels with pilasters at angles.
Boiler house detached to west of mill, and chimney to south of
engine house, with mill name and corbelled bands in white
brick. There were 120,000 spindles and power was provided by
a very impressive 1500 hp Urmson & Thompson engine
Closed 1959 and used by Littlewoods as a mail order warehouse until 1992.
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His report can be found here: [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=23757[/ame]
Hope you enjoy
Cotton spinning mill. 1907. By FW Dixon for the Hartford Mill
(Oldham) Company Ltd. Extended 1920 and 1924.
Probably cast-iron and steel-framed with concrete flooring,
and brick walls with large areas of window.
Steam powered with rope transmission.
4 and 5 storeys accommodating to sloping site, 25 bays long
and 12 bays wide. Corners of main building stressed with wider
pilasters between the windows, otherwise ornamentation
confined to tower which projects from NW corner and rises 2
stages above main roofline, in heavy Baroque style with stone
dressings, including chamfered cornice below lantern-like
upper storey possibly missing former dome.
Additional stair tower in centre of north elevation, with
stone pedimented cornice. Wide windows to each bay, with
panelled pilasters to upper storey only. Present loading bays
in north east range.
Single-storeyed extension to card room along south elevation.
Power transmission at SW of main block, the engine house
projecting and expressed as 5 window range and 3 storeys.
Rope race in western elevation, which has triple central
windows flanked by blind panels with pilasters at angles.
Boiler house detached to west of mill, and chimney to south of
engine house, with mill name and corbelled bands in white
brick. There were 120,000 spindles and power was provided by
a very impressive 1500 hp Urmson & Thompson engine
Closed 1959 and used by Littlewoods as a mail order warehouse until 1992.
HF-M_ by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (1) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (2) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (3) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (4) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (5) by .SDP., on Flickr
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HF-M_ (7) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (8) by .SDP., on Flickr
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HF-M_ (10) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (11) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (12) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (13) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (14) by .SDP., on Flickr
HF-M_ (15) by .SDP., on Flickr
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