Description and History of Site:-
Giles and Goodall wrote: "Steam-powered worsted-spinning mill established in 1865 and built to designs of James Ogilvie of Bradford. Small plot, but exploited to full by construction of storeyed buildings around narrow yard. First phase comprised warehouse on street front; timber-floored spinning mill at right angles, of three storeys with basement and attic and of eighteen bays, engine and boiler houses, and a range of buildings giving offices, cottage, coach house and stabling. This first phase immediately supplemented by second phase comprising four-storeyed eleven-bay spinning mill extension and warehouse. Siting of engine house in completed complex -between the two mill phases -suggests the development was planned as a 'double mill', favourable economic circumstances in the boom years of the 1860s perhaps accelerating progress-towards completion."

The majority of the mill complex, including the chimney, still stands (2019).

Further Reading and References:-
Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 Colum Giles and Ian H Goodall 1992 London HMSO.

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Key Words :- textile mill worsted spinning

Address :- Manningham, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 2JS
Grid Ref :- SE 1524 3341
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.796777 , Long -1.770117
Local Authority :- City of Bradford
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to industrial / commercial use
Site Dates :- 1865 -
Record Date :- 3 August 2016

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