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title: 2026.2: A history of the New Mill Estate, Saltaire
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title: A history of the New Mill Estate, Saltaire
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creator: Brook, Les
description: A 71 page document with notes, photographs and some excerpts from plans and maps all relating to New Mill. part of the Salts Mill complex. The document covers the history of the site fom the seventeenth century to the early twenty first centiury, including: - Dixon Mill, a corn and fulling mill built in 1635, occupied the site where New Mill was later constructed.? - As part of the building of the original Salts Mill, a gas works on teh same site was proposed in 1852, serving both the mill and the village. - The Mill was expanded in 1868 by builkding New Mill, with a notable campanile chimney. - The estate experienced significant events such as a major fire in 1881 and a breach in the weir in 1884, causing mill shutdowns. - ?By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the estate saw further extensions, infrastructure improvements, and the introduction of electric power. - In the mid-1990s, the estate was repurposed for offices and apartments, with remnants of its industrial past still visible today.
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rights holder: Copyright Les Brook
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extracted text: New Mill estate history 1 A HISTORY of the NEW MILL ESTATE, SALTAIRE Compiled and edited by Les Brook with support from the Saltaire History Club with special thanks to Colin Coates for his New Mill timelines; to Alistair Barr for help with ‘reading’ the current built environment; and to David King and Ian Watson for helpful historical contributions. Revised May 2024 Tweaked October 2025 In the mid-1990s, Saltaire’s New Mill estate – the land between the Leeds Liverpool 1 Canal and the Aire - was re-purposed as offices and apartments. It was the latest iteration of property which saw many changes over the ~170 years since Titus Salt started to buy land in Airedale and embarked on the construction of Salts Mill and Saltaire. These notes present the story of this corner of the Salt empire. They conclude with an exploration of how evidence of New Mill estate’s past can be found in the buildings of the present. 2 New Mill estate history 2 DATES and REFERENCES IN THESE NOTES These notes are arranged in date order. Almost all dates in the section headers are in this format 520304, indicating year / month / day, starting in the 19th century. Where dates refer to newspaper reports, the date is the date of publication. Dates in blue (eg 770101) are approximate ‘place dates’, generally because I don’t have a precise date. A place date allows me to lodge information more or less in the correct chronological sequence. 999 Endnotes are in red superscript like this . New Mill estate history 3 1635 onwards: Dixon Mill and its weir occupy the ‘island’ site where New Mill would be built 233 years later Dixon Mill, a corn and fulling mill reliant on waterpower, was built in 1635 and the “damme” (= weir) 3 also dates from then. By the late 1840s, the mill appears to be complex and extensive. Water was taken from the top of the weir and passed through a waterwheel under the mill. It then went into a channel (‘tailrace’), marked 535 on this plan, from which it returned to the river. The…
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