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Originally Posted by Lampman

I noticed on the linked 1890 map, that Ewbank had a factory there.I was wondering if there had been a mill there at sometime,due to the fact that there is an underground water course running there.
I know that previously that area has had a tech.college and training school for the Bulloughs factory,but I was thinking prior to this.

Ewbnks old works was originally started by John Ramsbottom, making water meters, later joined by Kenyon, Entwistle and Hacking. The site was demolished in 1890, the site became the play ground part, of St James School.The site of the Tech college was on the site of the old railway station entrance on the left, lokking at it from Cannon St.
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