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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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'.

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

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.

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

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

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).

Before the development of Crawley New Town, the Hazlewick Mill path and bridge was a renowned beauty spot.

Some blamed the slowness of firms in meeting the challenge, by not investing in new machinery or responding to new fashions.

The advent of the power-loom, however, brought about a decline, but by 1900 new industries had sprung up, including printing at Locher Mill, a laundry at Glentyan Mill and flax and paper mills at Johnstone

At the right is the watermill with the projecting bag hoist turret, now gone.