Building record 2608/14 - King Street Mill

Site of a 19th century Silk mill. Originally owned by Josiah Smale & Co then bought out in the mid 20th century by Berisfords. 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