Shepley Mill : Newspaper cuttings : 1860 - 1935

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Title

Shepley Mill : Newspaper cuttings : 1860 - 1935

Description

Newspaper cuttings relating to Shepley Mill, Hawk Green, Marple 1860 - 1935 :
a. 1894 : Shepley's Mill still only employs a portion of its former workpeople
b. 1900: Distruptive fire in a Marple Cotton Mill - fire broke out in the mule spinning department of Ridge Mill (Shepley Mill)
c. 1935 : The Passing of a Mill - Shepley Mill closed three years previously having been owned for most of its 120 years by the Sheply family
d. 1935 : Demolition of Mill : Three men injured. Transcript and photocopy of report from the Reporter 16th December 1935 describing the accident at Shepley Mill when the third floor on which three men were working collapsed, causing them to fall fifty feet.

Date

Reviewed AB 02/2024

Identifier

MRS/05/04
Louiset

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Citation

“Shepley Mill : Newspaper cuttings : 1860 - 1935,” Marple Local History Society Archives, accessed March 29, 2024, https://marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/archives/items/show/2471.

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