Mossley mill set to be demolished

A MOSSLEY mill will be demolished in the coming weeks under new plans.

Britannia New Mill – which is not the one standing on Manchester Road, opposite the town’s railway station – is earmarked to come down.

And it is hoped it will disappear as soon as Monday, December 2.

Developers The Millson Group have registered their intent to bring down the Queen Street building, with their aims clear as in a section in which they detail the proposed restoration of the site, they state: “Redevelopment of the site for residential.”

Work would hopefully be completed by February 7, 2025, with a commitment that all hardcore will be crushed and any metal recycled.

A detailed breakdown also reveals they will clear out debris and partition walls, lower the externa walls to the ground floor slab and excavate underneath it to a depth of one metre.

The Britannia Mill area has been subject of planning proposals to build houses and flats for dome time.

Now it looks like work will begin in the near future, once the Britannia New Mill site is cleared.

The first reference to the New Mill is in a 1955 map showing it had been erected on the land to the east of the original site.

And a location plan clearly shows a gap between this building, which backs on to the River Tame and the Manchester Road site.

Britannia Mill was built by John Mayall as a six-storey spinning block containing a maximum of 119,008 spindles which produced 60,000lbs of cotton yarn every week.

By 1856, it employed 528 men, women and children before being sold in 1902 to Britannia Spinning Co Ltd.

The complex has been reduced from its greatest extent, with the demolition of both the weaving shed and power plant and what is seen now next to Manchester Road is the spinning block, which has been disused for several years.

Tameside Council’s Speaker’s Panel (Planning) committee will decide whether to grant permission – but it is likely to go through.

 

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