Building record 2608/3 - Hurdsfield Road Mills

19th Century Silk spinning mill with north-light weaving sheds. North light sheds had multiple pitched roofs, the north side of each was a window which gave the best working light. Macclesfield was one of two silk production centres in Cheshire. Silk buttons had been made here since Elizabethan times. Silk throwing (Twisting silk threads together) began as a domestic industry and became a mechanised process with the use of water powered machinery in the mid 18th century. The industrial revolution introduced power weaving in the late 19th century and many large mills were built at this time.