[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by davemac

Now that you mention it I do vaguely remember it called Bulloughs Lodge, although it was at that time not easily walked around. The new path through gives access to everyone, and I suppose the relaunching of the lodge gave rise to the new name, the same happened with Scaitcliffe House, I remember visiting there when it was full of weaving looms.

Just spent an hour in the library searching thro old records & maps of the area around Victoria Street & Ormerod St, the first Mill was Scaitcliffe Mill at the bottom of Ormerod St, they built the lodge & the sluices and run offs for their mill, this was before the Railway was built to take the line to Bury, and long before any of the other mills were built on Victoria St. So its Scaitcliffe Mill Lodge, NOT Platts or Bulloughs.