Building record 2608/1 - Lower Heyes Mill

<1> Calladine A & Fricker J, 1993, East Cheshire Textile Mills, /36,96,127-35 (Y) (Book). SCH1093.

1780s cotton mill. Brick built, single storeyed, with basement warehouse on SW side. Originally powered by 7 h.p. wheel and 60 h.p. steam engine (by 1843), replaced in 1903 by 750 h.p. triple expansion horizontal engine. After 1903, the spinning was powered by 1800 h.p. inverted vertical steam engine, with power transmitted by rope race. taken over in 1867 by the Globe Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing Co., who extended it by building East Cheshire's biggest single storeyed north-light weaving shed. The mill then became known as Globe Mill, and specialised in calico weaving, until 1933. Now used as a printing works