Brunswick Mill, Ancoats
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Brunswick Mill, Ancoats is a former cotton spinning mill on Bradford Road in Ancoats, Manchester, England. The mill was built around 1840, part of a group of mills built along the Ashton Canal, and at that time it was one of the country's largest mills. It was built round a quadrangle, a seven-storey block facing the canal.[2] It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. Production finished in 1967.
Location in Greater Manchester | |
Cotton | |
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Spinning (ring mill) | |
Architectural style | Fireproof |
Location | Ancoats, Manchester, England |
Serving canal | Ashton Canal |
Owner | Henry Bannerman |
Further ownership |
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Coordinates | 53.4852°N 2.2143°W / 53.4852; -2.2143 |
Construction | |
Built | 1840s |
Renovated |
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Design team | |
Architect | David Bellhouse |
Structural engineer | William Fairbairn |
Power | |
Engine type | Beam then horizontal then electric |
Equipment | |
Mule Frames | 77000 (1850s) |
Ring Frames path | (1920s) |
References | |
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It was a seven-storey mill with 35 loading bays facing directly onto the canal, with a smaller three 3⁄4 story block of warehouses and offices backing onto Bradford Road. The Brunswick Mill was one of the largest in Britain at that time and by the 1850s held some 276 carding machines, and 77,000 mule spindles.[3] 20 drawing frames, fifty slubbing frames and eighty one roving frames.[4]