E.P. Gray Coombes works, Charlesworth, Glossop.

[ROYALBOB]

Visited with Yorkietommo and the sun shone on us, after our initial trip for landscapes and water falls and shit in the hills we decided to have a look here, comic capers as the local plod turned up and slammed all the doors shut on us! sure he clocked me but carried on regardless. Enjoy.


Chisworth Works was built at the end of the 18th or in the early 19th centuries as a cotton band manufactory and initially called Higher Mill. There are large round-arched doorways surrounded by large ashlar blocks in the north-east elevation. However, it appears as though the original building was extended twice to the rear, also in stone, as there are lines in the mortarwork and mismatches in the courses on the south-west elevation. Presumably, these extensions took place before 1857 as the building line remains the same on the maps until 1973.
By 1973, the site was used as a dyeing works and there was a large T-shaped extension at the rear which appears to have been added in two stages. The building at the north-eastern end had
gone and any gardens in front of the cottages had been covered over for the yard. The only change ten years later was the construction of a square loading ramp at the front. The outline
today is the same as it was in 1984.
The company started "winding-up" in 2006 and was dissolved/liquidised and closed in September that year.

























Grassyarse.

[Clough]

Nice one never seen the houses before, they on site? Old workers houses or something

[ROYALBOB]

Nice one never seen the houses before, they on site? Old workers houses or something

Cheers, yes they were workers cottages, some were the works offices, nowt special inside like. Can't believe theyve not beem snapped up

[yorkietommo]

Top stuff chief. Will stick mine up in a min.

Where's your sunbeam shot? Mine turned out shit.

[boxerheaven]

very nice pics

[Nicola]

I love them wellies!