Monument record 2608/50 - Park Lane Mill

One of seven pediment mills built in Macclesfield between 1811 and 1831. Park Lane Mill was 4 storeys high with a central pediment (triangular gable). Now demolished. 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.