The Valley of the Lost Mills

In this video we take a walk along the Cheesden Valley between the Lancashire cotton mill towns of Bury and Rochdale. We see the remains of the lost mills in the area. These mills are from the early part of the Industrial revolution and were woollen, cotton and bleaching and dyeing works. All that remains now is ruins but they are now quite beautiful. They could not compete with the cotton super mills that were emerging in the nearby city of Manchester. This history walk will look at old maps to try and make sense of this industrial decay. We start at Cheesden Lumb lower mill and walk down the Cheesden Valley along the brook. This is a country walk and an Urbex. Black and white picture inside finishing works taken from a book, The Textile Mills of lancashire: The Legacy. Historic England. Used for educational purposes only.

Видео The Valley of the Lost Mills канала Martin Zero