Also known as Old White Shop
Categories 2: Mill
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Dredging at Oak Bank mill pond
Dragline and steam engine removing the silt from Oak Bank mill pond. The warehouse to the right was demolished in the 1990s to build Willowbank Drive and Foxglove Close.
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Mrs Greg and Miss Amy Greg
Wife and daughter of Samuel Greg. Amy taught at Lowerhouse sunday school. Mrs Greg died April 1895 aged 85 see Macclesfield Courier 27th April 1995. Amy was her eldest daugher born 1840, died 1902.
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Waterhouse mill
The room with tall windows, front right, was the former water wheel house. Above that notice the pattern on the end of the main mill building – that denotes the original roof line. The roof space was turned into a useable space by raising the walls and fitting a roof with several small pitches. When the mill was demolished in 1962 only the to the left of the entrance road was left to become the main office for Kay Metzeller who built their own factory on the site. That and the offices were demolished in 2012 and the site re-developed into a housing estate – Waterwheel Way, Lomas Close, and Leat Place.
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Brewery fire Higher Mills
3rd March 1931. Cotton spinning at Higher Mills had ceased by the 1870s. The low part of the mill then became a brewery until approximately 1920, after which it was used only for bottling Ind Coope beer. This activity was never restarted after the fire. See “Bollington in old picture postcards” for full details. Also www.happyvalley.org.uk/breweries .
