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Caption For Whitworth, Facit 1951

This view looks north from above the Memorial Park, with the huge Facit New Mill on the right.

Caption For New Mill, The Village C1955

The hamlet of New Mill grew up near the canal north of Tring around Tring Mill, now Heygate Flour.

Caption For Grindleton, The Village And Post Office 1921

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked

Caption For Ripponden, Oldham Road 1966

The new mills, ten of which were established as early as 1758, used water power from the fast running River Ryburn.

Caption For Loddiswell, Mill 1890

This is New Mill: despite its name, it has existed for centuries.

Caption For Barnoldswick, The Locks C1955

The local textile industry blossomed, and people moved into the village from the surrounding areas to work in the new mills.

Caption For Barnoldswick, The Locks C1955

The local textile industry blossomed, and people moved into the village from the surrounding areas to work in the new mills.

Caption For Disley, Market Street C1965

When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Nash Mills 2005

Industry at Nash Mills has now disappeared to become a new housing development.

Caption For New Mill, The Village C1955

We are at the junction of Wingrave Road on the left, which leads into Tring past the site of the old Tring silk mill, and Tringford Road on the right; the photographer is standing in Bulbourne

Caption For Grindleton, The Village And Post Office 1921

At the time of this photograph, the population of the village had almost halved: local cottage industries had declined, and the arrival of the new mills in the larger towns meant that people flocked there

Caption For Maiden Newton, The Mill C1960

Maiden Newton's mill spent a number of years in the 20th century as a carpet factory, in the same way that many of Dorset's old mill buildings had to find new uses in the modern age.

Caption For New Mill, The Canal C1955

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

Caption For Frome, Market Place 1907

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

Caption For Cockerham, The Old Rectory C1965

Called New Mill in 1840, it featured as a landmark on Captain Henry Mangles Denham's 'Instructions for approaching the new town and port of Fleetwood'.

Caption For Mill Hill, The Broadway C1955

Arts and Crafts-style buildings, and the churches of St Michael and All Angels and the Sacred Heart and St Mary Immaculate set the pace and quality at this new Mill Hill, away from the old centre but close

Caption For Holybourne, Lower Neatham Mill C1960

This picture was taken at about the time when Lower Neatham Mill (pictured here) was sold by the Denyers to the Ellis family of Headley Mill.

Caption For Tring, Marsworth Locks C1960

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

Caption For Caton, The Village C1960

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened.

Caption For Three Bridges, The Flood Gates 1906

The millpond for the old Hazlewick mill was fed by the River Mole, which flowed close to Three Bridges railway station (on the left through the trees).