Building Name

Weaving Shed, Hargreaves Street, Haslingden

Date
1860 - 1861
Street
Hargreaves Street
District/Town
Haslingden
County/Country
Lancashire, England
Architect
Client
Hargreaves Street Manufacturing Company Limited
Work
New Build

 

TO MASONS, EXCAVATORS, JOINERS, PLUMBERS, and PLASTERERS.—TO BL LET, the Whole of the WORK required ERECT and COMPLETE WEAVING SHED, WARPING and WINDING ROOM, WARE and other Buildings, intended to be erected in Hargreaves Street, Haslingden. Plans may be seen on and after Tuesday next, and other particulars obtained by applying Mr. W. H. Ashworth, Marsden Square, Haslingden, or at my office. Tenders to be sent in not later than Monday, the 21st instant, the lowest tender not necessarily accepted. JAMES MAXWELL, 2, Haymarket-street, Bury. Architect and Surveyor. TO MANUFACTURERS and OTHERS.—The above SHED TO BE LET, on lease when erected. [Bury Times 11 February 1860 page 2]

A substantial stone building, with 308 looms (1861). The mill operated on co-operative principles.

Reference : Bury Times 11 February 1860 page 2
Reference : Bury Times 17 November 1860. contract for the supply of stone
Reference : Bury Times 17 August 1861 - inaugural dinner