Cellars Clough Wool Mill, Marsden, Yorkshire - Feb 2018

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Visited back in Early Feb with Mookster and an American Explorer friend, who is over on an educational placement.

We had quite a Northern Road Trip planned; with around 18 sites on our list, but sadly did about 4 or 5 over two days. Annoying but that's the nature of this beast!

Cellars Clough Mill was originally owned by Samuel Firth of Gatehead in Marsden, and opened in 1888.

Sam also owned Holme Mill. By the 60s, it was owned and run by company Fisher, Firth & Co. which named the mill "Cellars Clough Woollen Mills Ltd", managed by another Firth son, in 1981. The company has since been dissolved and the mill is believed to have closed in the 80s.

Previous planning applications have been unsuccessful because it was discovered that bats were found to be residing insude mill.

The bats cannot be forcibly removed, so the hope was that they would eventually move on.

Wings of the mill have been demolished; presumably to let nature in and destroy the mill?

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Fine example of one of the original 'fire proof' mills - last image shows that feature on lower floors. Unfortunately they did not find a way to make the roof structures fire proof in these early multi storied mills.
 
Shame. Many lives must have been lost back in the day!

Yes there were many victims - a large proportion being children, with girls making the largest contribution to the death toll. My wife's family owned Castleton Mills in Armley Leeds and the original five storey mill building followed the traditional built layout - five floors connected by a staircase tower added to one end, the mill originally weaving canvas for the wind powered shipping industry before changing to woollen fabrics. The looms in the mill produced a lot of noise when they were operating - even when individually electrified in the present day and were thus a night-mare under the 'Noise at Work' Regs. What it must have been like when the looms were operated by overhead line shafting and flat belts; powered by the steam mill engine in the engine house, is anybodies guess! But shouting 'fire' when discovering a smouldering pile of dust, wooden bobbins or other flammable wares, would have been useless as one would not be heard. The Yorkshire and Lancashire mills produced another unique aspect of everyday life - sign language and lip reading. Back in my childhood days you could always tell the old weavers and also those still in the industry, because they conversed in sign language - hand gestures, not the true deaf signage and spoke slowly with careful lip movements.
 
#9 reminds me of a scary movie, you're bound to get trapped should you enter.

Great set, thanks.
 
You managed 4 or 5 visits out of 18 over 2 days...I'd call that a bloody success mate:) 2 would be tops for me, and one would probably be sealed.

I do love bats, newts and toads, they can hold up redev or demo for a sometime, often a couple of years:)...but if they don't move on naturally after a while, then "specially trained people" with bat licences etc can be bought in to carefully gather up our urbex friends, and release them into another derelict building awaiting demo:)
 

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