Talk:List of mills in Clitheroe

Clitheroe Castle Museum
The following notes are from data on the 360 display information system at Clitheroe Castle Museum referencing it might be tricky, but it is likely useful: Trappedinburnley (talk) 23:52, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Commercial Mill was built is early 1860s as a spinning mill, but the cotton famine caused collapse. Bought by John Mercer (also at Primrose and Homles) in 1868. Production until 1930s.
 * Holmes Mill, spinning mill with small foundry from 1820s. Housed the technical school for a time. Steam power abandoned in 1968.
 * Foulsykes Mill was built in 1861 for 340 looms, closed in 1941. Subsequently used by Henthorn Manufacturers division of Truetex.
 * Bridgewater Printworks (Tesco) possible handloom weavers warehouse, in 1830s became printworks for muslin and later calico. Converted to brewery by 1850.
 * Albion Mill, small weaving shed operational from 1860 to 1923. Latterly operated by the Thwaites family of Blackburn.
 * Waterloo Mill was a spinning mail in 1858. Converted to weaving between 1888 and 1930, mentions WWII jet-engine work.
 * Brooks Mill was operational from 1880s until 1930. After WWII became foundry for Castle Castings.
 * Upbrooks mill was a small water-powered mill. It has been a spinning mill, a calico printworks, a bobbin makers, a chair factory, and now a private house.
 * Shawbridge Old Mill has been used for carding, spinning, brewing, calico warehousing, block printing, weaving, bobbin turning, furniture making as a timberworks. Demolished in 1990.
 * Shawbridge Mill was built in 1860 for spinning and weaving. Specialized in brocades from 1930s, with production until 1973.
 * Brewery Mill also known as Pendle Mill was originally built as a brewery around 1788. Converted to calico printing in 1807. In 1834 a new spinning mill and weaving shed built. The spinning mill destroyed by fire in 1896, but continued to produce toweling until 1990.
 * Victoria Mill was built in the early 1860s as a spinning mill. Was producing Raylon latterly but closed in 1937. Later used by the Birtish Aircraft Company (WWII) and Brook Bond, demolished in the 1980s.

| This seems to be a useful resource.-- Clem Rutter (talk) 08:14, 30 September 2015 (UTC)