Talk:New Mills

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How about a disambig page.

There are two "New Mills" in Scotland, 2 in Ireland, 2 in Cornwall plus Gloucestershire and Herefordshire


 * I've added a clean-up tag because the article could benefit by some rearranging of the text into a more logical order. At the moment it reads like a random list of facts with no discernable progression.

Fire
I seem to remember visiting the heritage center, years back, and they had a little demonstration on, about a fire in the mills, which is why they're now old and broken, and have not been converted into luxury waterfront apartments. Isn't it worth mentioning, and if it is, and I missed it, should it not be in the History section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.85.162 (talk) 04:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The fire is mentioned at Torr Vale Mill, which is probably where it best belongs. Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:11, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

newtown
isnt newtown a district of disley? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.106.6 (talk) 22:40, 9 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The western part of Newtown is in Disley Civil Parish (and Cheshire East), but the bulk of the village, including the school, station and church, is in Derbyshire. See 1:25000 map at streetmap.co.uk. Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

"Robert Hibbert" grave
This source tells us that the vault of Robert Hibbert is, as one expect it, in The Wesleyan Cemetery at New Mills. How is the grave, in Slough, of someone born in 1836/36, pictured in File:Robert Hibbert Grave St Mary's Slough.jpg, connected? The inscription on the lower part of that memorial is too indistinct to be clearly read. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:59, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Without some supporting source, just adding this image to the article counts as WP:OR. So I have added a cn tag. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Robert Hibbert in Slough MIGHT possibly, but remotely possibly, be a descendant of the Hibberts of Birtles, one of whom, John Nembhard Hibbert, inherited one of the Hibbert family's southern estates at Chalfont, and whose family held it until the late 1880s, when it was sold. For John Nembhard Hibbert, and his kin, see the Legacies of British Slaveownership database by Googling lbs ucl, which is readily searchable. This Robert Hibbert is not mentioned, or doesn't seem to be, but Chalfont is much closer to Slough than New Mills. The lower base stone in the image appears to have an inscription of some length, which may well be the key to the problem. It doesn't seem to be available in transcription online,  But if you blow up the image the words Robert Hibbert,  Cotton Spinner,New Mills" become visible there.  By then the Birtles Hibberts were landowners, in the eighteenth century Jamaica slavetraders,  and merchants, not just spinners. One of these Hibberts did die aged 76, but the year in this image is indecipherable. The Robert Hibbert born in New Mills who is shown as Superintendent of the St Pancras Baths in the 1901 census, living in King Street St Pancras, seems to have died aged 66, not 76.   There was a family of Hibberts in and around Slough in the 1911 census, but no certain Robert, and none born in New Mills.   Can some Wikipedian in Slough have a look?81.158.101.97 (talk) 17:04, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Railways - the Hayfield branch was operated by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later Great Central Railway, and had been built from Romiley between 1860 and 1868 by a company backed by the MS&L, which later took it over in 1865, and completed the New Mills -Hayfield branch. The Midland later from 1867 had a joint interest in the London Road -Hyde- New Mills line, which gave it its first route to Manchester through Romiley, and also through Tiviot Dale, to Cheshire. When Edward Watkin expelled the Midland from London Road, the Midland built its South Manchester line to the new Central Station, in 1880. Even into the 1950s the tickets sold on the Manchester-Hayfield line at some stations, eg Marple, were printed as Midland and GC. But the Hayfield branch itself from New Mills was wholly MS&L/Great Central see (ia) Dow, G The Great Central Railway Vol 2 p 12 and passim81.158.101.97 (talk) 16:44, 24 March 2016 (UTC).

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