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2845 ~ 259 - 271 High Street West ~ ~ (1971)

The Glossop flood 1971. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Hales.

2826 ~ Bernard Street ~ Victoria Lounge ~ (1846)
Built in 1846 although the first licence to Thomas Fielding may not have granted until 1857.

2825 ~ Norfolk Square ~ Norfolk Arms ~ (1829)
A tontine is an investment plan for raising capital, devised in the 17th century and relatively widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries. It combines features of a group annuity and a lottery. Each subscriber pays an agreed sum into the fund, and thereafter receives an annuity. As members die, their shares devolve to the other participants, and so the value of each annuity increases. On the death of the last member, the scheme is wound up. In 1829 a Deed was drawn up for a tontine to purchase the inn, 40 shares, each costing Â£50 were issued to 19 Nominors, including the Duke of Norfolk who took out 8 shares. It’s thought this annuity paid out when half of the participants had died.

2824 ~ Norfolk Square ~ Norfolk Arms ~ (1822)
The first licensee was Samuel Allington.

2823 ~ 22 Norfolk Street ~ Harvey Leonard's Wine & Ale ~ (1838)
Built in 1838 by Jonathan Bowden as the Railway Inn.

2822 ~ 34 Norfolk Street ~ George Hotel ~ (1836)
Built in 1836, the first licensee was Joseph Higginbottom.

2821 ~ 2 Howard Street ~ Star Inn ~ (1837)
Built in 1837, the first licensee was Joseph Bowden a joiner.

2820 ~ Arundel Street ~ ~ (1978)
English Heritage Description
Glossop Gas Company offices, now commercial premises. 1845, converted C20. Rock-faced coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings, vermiculated quoins and Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Street front has symmetrical 5 window range. Central doorway with stone pilasters and pediment, metal door with rectangular overlight, flanked by 2 tall roundheaded windows with vermiculated keystones and C20 windows with horizontal glazing bars. Above 5 similar windows. Ashlar band between floors inscribed:- ’GLOSSOP GAS WORKS ESTABLISHED AD 1845’. Moulded cornice and cast-iron rainwater goods. Left and right returns topped with pediments, each with 2 similar round headed windows to each floor with plain keystones. Rear elevation has symmetrical 5 window range. Slightly off-centre round headed doorway with pilaster surround and boarded fanlight, to right small round headed window. Either side 2 round headed windows with keystones and C20 windows with horizontal glazing bars and boarded fanlights. Above tall central round headed window with margin light glazing flanked by 2 round headed windows similar to those below.
INTERIOR: has wooden staircase with turned balusters to entrance hall and panelled doors to ground floor.
© English Heritage 1978.
The National Heritage List Text Entries contained in this material were obtained on 3/4/2019. The most publicly available up to date National Heritage List Text Entries can be obtained from www.english-heritage.org.uk.

2819 ~ Old Glossop ~ Meadow Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2818 ~ Chapel Street ~ Shepley Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2817 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2816 ~ Victoria Street ~ Howard Town Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2815 ~ High Street West ~ Wrens Nest Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2814 ~ Sheffield Road ~ Cowbrook Mill / Hurst Mill ~ (1897)

Ordnance Survey map 1897.

2813 ~ Chapel Street ~ Shepley Mill ~ (1912)

Shepley Mill on Chapel Street about 1912.

2812 ~ Sheffield Road ~ Cowbrook Mill / Hurst Mill ~ (1965)
Derbyshire Heritage describes Cowbrook Mill being "in ruins in 1965".

2811 ~ Sheffield Road ~ Cowbrook Mill / Hurst Mill ~ (1891)

Directory 1891 Worrall’s Cotton Spinners
John Hadfield, Cowbrook Mill; 18,000 spindles, 55^s/65^s weft. Pay day first Wednesday after the 15th.
James Rowbottom (and cotton banding), Hurst Mill, Glossop; and Holehouse Mills, Broadbottom; 32,000 spindles. Telegrams, " Ropery, Broadbottom." -See advt.

2810 ~ Old Glossop ~ Meadow Mill ~ (1891)

Directory 1891 Worrall’s Cotton Spinners
Samuel Rowbottom (cotton banding and smallwares), Meadow Mills; 68^s/32^s. Pay day first Wednesday after the 15th of each month. - See advt.

2809 ~ High Street West ~ Wrens Nest Mill ~ (1891)

Directory 1891 Worrall’s Cotton Spinners
Francis Sumner and Co., Limited, Wren Nest Mills; 122,000 spindles; 2,541 looms, printers and shirtings. Pay day first Wednesday after the 15th. William Thorpe, manager; Theodore W. Ellison, secretary.

2808 ~ Victoria Street ~ Howard Town Mill ~ (1891)

Directory 1891 Worrall’s Cotton Spinners
221,000 spindles, 30^s/50^s; 3,860 looms. Pay day first Wednesday after the 15th. Telegrams, "Wood, Limited, Glossop." Thomas Rawstorne, manager; William Hall, secretary.

2807 ~ Chapel Street ~ Shepley Mill ~ (1891)

Directory 1891 Worrall’s Cotton Spinners
Shepley Mill Cotton Manufacturing Co, Limited, Shepley Mills, Chapel street; 43,000 spindles, 30^s/34^s twist, 36^s/50^s weft. Pay day first Wednesday after the 15th. Abel Dearnaley, manager; George Roberts, secretary.

2806 ~ Victoria Street ~ Howard Town Mill ~ (1891)
Kelly’s Directory 1891
Wood John & Brothers Limited, cotton spinners & manufacturers (William Hall, sec.), Howard Town mills.

2805 ~ 3 Jackson Buildings, Victoria Street ~ Pizza4U ~ (2014)

A recovery vehicle towing a broken down bus collided with buildings in Glossop town centre and became embedded. The collision occurred at around 6pm on 20 May 2014 with the bus becoming embedded in the shop fronts of a taxi company and a takeaway on Victoria Street. The recovery vehicle was wedged between a lamp post and the bank.

2804 ~ 132-134 High Street West ~ Vacant ~ (2016)

Company No9 designed and manufactured bespoke wooden furniture, they closed this store in 2019 and are now based in Dinting Lane Industrial Estate, photo taken by Glossop VAH, February 2016.

2803 ~ 140 High Street West ~ Vegas Barber ~ (2016)

Ashley’s flower shop, photo taken by Glossop VAH, February 2016.

2802 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (2010)

Hawkshead Mill before demolision.

2801 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1914)
"Isaac’s fortune came not just from his ingenuity in developing the belt fastener and associated products but by turning the factory over to munitions in WW1. He patented a particular fuze that overcame design faults in those previously used. His fortune was further enhanced by two speculative ventures. First there was Jacksons Buildings and then there was The Angus Hotel on the north side of Blackfriars Bridge in London." - Peter Quinn (Great-Grandson of Isaac Jackson) (February 2019).

2800 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (2005)
The last inhabitants of Hawkshead Mill were Flexco, a conveyor belt fastening manufacturer. Flexco moved out in 2005 and the mill, it’s understood, was never occupied again.

2799 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (2014)
A Planning Supporting Statement was prepared to accompany the outline planning application, proposing the residential redevelopment of at land Hawkshead Mill in Old Glossop. The planning application was made on behalf of Pinstripe Clothing Company, the owner of the site. The proposal sought to secure the principle of redeveloping this sustainable, brownfield site for
up to 30 dwellings.

2798 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (2012)
A full planning application was submitted in 2012, under reference HPK/2012/0537. This was a joint application by the current owners of the site and house builder Seddon Homes, proposing the Demolition of Hawkshead Mill and the Erection of 34 Dwellings. This application was refused in April 2013, on the grounds that it encroached into the Green Belt.

2797 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1980)
Production of Jackson’s products finally ceased at Hawkshead Mill by the 1980s.

2796 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1904)
In 1904/5 it was taken over by Isacc Jackson, who converted it from a cotton mill to a factory dedicated to the production of metal fastenings, nuts, bolts and parts for the automotive industry.

2795 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1836)
At its peak in the second quarter of the 19th century it comprised two mills, one powered by a 27hp steam engine and 18hp water wheel, and the other was powered by a smaller 12hp steam engine and a larger water wheel generating 30hp. In 1836 there was a workforce of 400, who operated 6,960 Throstle and 10,741 Mule spindles, and 495 looms. It underwent a period of decline in the latter years of the 19th century eventually becoming disused.

2794 ~ Old Glossop ~ Hawkshead Mill ~ (1783)
In 1783, William Sheppard built the first recorded mill on the Site, making use of the Blackshaw Clough as a water supply. During the 18th century it was also know as Starkies’, or Rolf’s mill.

2793 ~ 110-112 High Street West ~ Dowds Restuarant ~ (1940)
"My great uncle was George Herbert Farnsworth, son of Thomas who was a wholesale fruiterer at 112 High Street West. he married Evelyn Platt. They died in 1972 and 1968 respectively. They had no children but me and my cousins remember them with great fondness." - Margaret Weaver (February 2019).

2792 ~ 119 High Street West ~ Tung Fong ~ (1958)
"From 1958 to 1970 this shop belonged to my parents Harry & Hilda Bunting as a fish and chip shop it was called "Bunting’s Chippy" and before that my uncle Jim & Rose Bunting had it." - Harry Bunting (March 2019).

2791 ~ 379 High Street West ~ Formerly The Junction Inn ~ (2014)