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Mill Lodge By Humphrey Spender
- Copyright Bolton Council
- Image ref. 1993.83.01.20
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the wooden ‘tower’ in the middle ground was located near Weston Street by the railway bridge and was part of a tannery there. It looks like the tower of the Beehive mill in the right background poking above the mill. At a guess this would place the photo location near Walkers tannery looking south.
Although similar, to what Derek Preistland describes Humphrey Spender never strayed further than school hill area and the town centre, so I would suggest this is as described above mortfield/nelson/park mills area or possibly Atlas mills complex.
Also ‘looks like’ back of Nelson Mills & Park Mill on Gaskell Street/Merehall Street – Mortfield area; Early 1950’s I remember a wooden water tower like this next to the long cobbled ginnel from Avenue Street to Gaskell street
Looks like the back of Merehall Street/Mortfield with Nelson Mills & Park Mill; and there was a wooden tower like this one next to the ginnel which ran from Avenue Street to Gaskell Street.
Yes. The view is taken from Merehall Street opposite the park. Nelson Mills are in the foreground with the chimney between them. That chimney was the one with the tall aerial stuck in the top; it was a lot shorter by then. In the background are Park Mill and Persian Mill, with their chimneys. The ginnel ran from Gaskell Street to the bend on Mortfield Lane. I don’t remember the wooden tower.