Old Mill, Manchester

Old Mill
Murrays' Mills; Old Mill is the second of the three buildings on the right
General information
Address	Ancoats, Manchester, England
Completed	1798
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Decker Mill Old Mill
Designated	19 June 1988
Reference no.	1247473

Old Mill, completed in 1798 as part of Murrays' Mills, is the oldest surviving cotton mill in Manchester, England. ^[1] Sited on the Rochdale Canal in Ancoats, it was powered by a Boulton and Watt steam engine, and its narrow six-storey brick structure "came to typify the Manchester cotton mill". ^[2] Old Mill was designated a Grade II* listed building on 19 June 1988. ^[3]

Gallery

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  Old Mill as seen from the banks of the New Islington canal
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  View from the south

References

Notes

1. Williams & Farnie (1992), p. 50
2. Casella & Symonds (2005), p. 199
3. Historic England. "Decker Mill Old Mill (1247473)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 March 2013.

Bibliography

• Casella, Eleanor C.; Symonds, James (2005), Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions, Springer, ISBN   978-0-387-22808-2
• Williams, Mike; Farnie, D. A., eds. (1992), Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester, Carnegie Publishing, ISBN   0-948789-89-1

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