EPW058236 ENGLAND (1938). The Severn Valley Gas Corporation Ltd Gas Works and adjacent Spring Cotton Mill, Roaches, 1938

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Details

Title [EPW058236] The Severn Valley Gas Corporation Ltd Gas Works and adjacent Spring Cotton Mill, Roaches, 1938
Reference EPW058236
Date 25-July-1938
Link
Place name ROACHES
Parish MOSSLEY
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 398055, 403438
Longitude / Latitude -2.0293436899889, 53.527354080651
National Grid Reference SD981034

Pins

This mill was originally built as Co-operative Mill in 1862, renamed Spring Mill in about 1869 and considerably rebuilt in 1874 following a major fire. Bought by Una Mill (1919) Ltd it took on the name Una Mill in the 1920s. It was demolished in 1968.

David Beilby
Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:55:50 PM
Tollemache public house

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Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:51:32 PM
1931 retort house

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Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:48:23 PM
Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Gas Works Lock 16W

David Beilby
Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:47:54 PM
Original gas works

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Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:44:29 PM

User Comment Contributions

The first gas works in this location was built by the Stalybridge Gas Company in 1862 and is shown by the pin. The 100 foot diameter gas holders were part of this original development. Through an Act of parliament it became the property of the new Borough of Mossley in 1885 and served Mossley and most of Saddleworth.



Lack of capacity and difficulties with getting material on and off site led to the building of a new works alongside the railway which was formally opened on June 22nd 1931 by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby, K.G. The retort house for is visible in the foreground. The existing gasometers were retained.



In 1934 Mossley Corporation sold the undertaking to the Mossley and Saddleworth Gas Company Ltd. which was then absorbed by the holding company Gas Consolidation Ltd. (Severn Valley Gas Corporation Ltd and Palatine Gas Corporation Ltd). In 1949 the undertaking vested in the North Cheshire Group of the North Western Gas Board.



The retort house was extended around 1950 (and photographed by Aerofilms again in 1951). The works closed, as I recall, in 1959 but I have no confirmation of the date.

David Beilby
Friday 23rd of August 2013 06:43:46 PM