On a warm sunny day, there is nothing better than a stroll along a canal.
Of course the hardy and resolute will do the walk in all weathers, even when the rain is coming down like stair rods and bouncing off the water.
But in spring and summer there is much more to see, and lingering beside a lock gate or admiring the canal architecture is so much more appealing.
And that is what Andy did yesterday, choosing to stop by the Victoria Mill which my Wikipedia tells me, "is a Grade II listed nineteenth century cotton spinning mill in Miles Platting, Manchester. It was a double mill designed by George Woodhouse completed in 1869.
It was built alongside the Rochdale Canal and Varley Street, Victoria Mills were constructed for William Holland, of the Adelphi Mill, Salford.
It was designed by George Woodhouse of Bolton. It was designed as a six storey double mill with shared engine house. It had an octagonal chimney. It was worked to the 1960, and has now been converted into office space and residential."**
It is a mill I knew nothing about, and as you do I went looking for more, which I discovered in the form of another history of the building, and the site of the present owners advertising its role as a commercial and residential property.**
Location; Mile Platting
Pictures; the Victoria Mill and the Rochdale Canal, 2021, from the collection of Andy Robertson
* Victoria Mill, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Mill,
**Victoria Mill, https://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/victoriamill.html, http://whitecroftgroup.com/projects/victoria-mill
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