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Hartford Mill was a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. [1]
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| Coordinates | 53°32′14″N2°08′08″W / 53.537354°N 2.135546°W |
Hartford Mill was a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. [1]
It was constructed as a cotton-spinning mill in 1907. Frederick Whittaker Dixon designed it for the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Company Ltd. It was extended in 1920 and 1924. It was Grade II-listed on 8 March 1993. [1] In 1991, Littlewoods vacated the building, and it has been unoccupied since then. A fire significantly damaged it in 2014, [2] and a teenager died after falling through the roof of the building in 2015. [3] It was proposed for demolition in 2018. Demolition of the mill was due to be completed in August 2020 but was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] Demolition restarted in July 2021 and the last remaining structure, the mill chimney, was demolished on 1 October 2023. [5]
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