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Originally Posted by Retlaw
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.
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I think you have found the true name, unfortunately it becomes Platts lodge when the majority of people call it that. It is one of those things that it is known by, for example vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers, Hoover is a brand, low fat spread is called margarine, we haven't been able to buy true margarine since the early 1980's. But your effort is appreciated.