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garinda · 07-07-2010, 10:58

Rather more detail, than on the offical listed building/monument site, of Ossy War Memorial and Rhyddings Mill. (Page 66.)

War Memorial, Union Road, c.1920, Grade II - 183899. Polished
Cornish granite with bronze statues. Up 3 steps an oblong plinth with
curved ends carrying a tapered obelisk; mounted in front of the
obelisk are statues of a soldier with rifle and bayonet protecting a
fallen comrade, at each side is a rostrum bearing a bronze angel
crouching with a wreath, and the apex is surmounted by a large angel
with wings aloft standing on a globe. Plinth is inscribed:
Erected By Public Subscription To The Memory Of The Men
Of This Town Who Fell In The Great War 1914 - 1918
Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That He Lay Down His
Life For His Friends / 1939 - 1945 To The Memory Of Those
Who Gave Their Lives In The World War Also Those Who
Died In The Korean War 1950 - 1953.
(listed in UK National Inventory of War Memorials)

Rhyddings Mill, Rhyddings Street, 1856, Grade II – 183911. Former
cotton weaving mill. Coursed rubble, much of it rusticated, with
Welsh slate roofs. The listed items consist of the principal warehouse
and preparation block with weaving shed to rear, the works entrance
and engine house adjacent to left, the chimney stack, and the front
perimeter walls and two entrance lodges. Internally only the principal
range and weaving sheds are of special interest: the warehouse was
not fireproof, with timber floors and chamfered beams supported by
iron cradles on piers of circular section with rudimentary moulded
capitals; similar columns to weaving sheds. Rhyddings Mill is an
interesting example of a mid-19th century textile mill designed with
considerable architectural pretensions as part of a larger-scale urban
development consisting of employees' housing, speculative housing
and the parish church. This was the first independent weaving mill in
Oswaldtwistle, built by Watson Brothers, later Robert Watson &
Sons, who also had a mill at Stonebridge, on the other side of the
river. In 1930, the mill had 280 employees and 699 looms worked by
a 270 hp beam engine; manufactured fabrics were mainly printers,
dhooties, jacconettes and dobby cloth. A second weaving shed was
erected in 1951 and equipped with 250 electrically driven looms.
Production ceased on the site in 1957.

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa..._CAA_Final.pdf

07-07-2010, 10:58	#15
garinda Give, give, give member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Overlookin' ducks & geese Posts: 32,411 Blog Entries: 293 Liked: 27 times Rep Power: 16469	Re: Listed buildings in Hyndburn. Rather more detail, than on the offical listed building/monument site, of Ossy War Memorial and Rhyddings Mill. (Page 66.) War Memorial, Union Road, c.1920, Grade II - 183899. Polished Cornish granite with bronze statues. Up 3 steps an oblong plinth with curved ends carrying a tapered obelisk; mounted in front of the obelisk are statues of a soldier with rifle and bayonet protecting a fallen comrade, at each side is a rostrum bearing a bronze angel crouching with a wreath, and the apex is surmounted by a large angel with wings aloft standing on a globe. Plinth is inscribed: Erected By Public Subscription To The Memory Of The Men Of This Town Who Fell In The Great War 1914 - 1918 Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That He Lay Down His Life For His Friends / 1939 - 1945 To The Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives In The World War Also Those Who Died In The Korean War 1950 - 1953. (listed in UK National Inventory of War Memorials) Rhyddings Mill, Rhyddings Street, 1856, Grade II – 183911. Former cotton weaving mill. Coursed rubble, much of it rusticated, with Welsh slate roofs. The listed items consist of the principal warehouse and preparation block with weaving shed to rear, the works entrance and engine house adjacent to left, the chimney stack, and the front perimeter walls and two entrance lodges. Internally only the principal range and weaving sheds are of special interest: the warehouse was not fireproof, with timber floors and chamfered beams supported by iron cradles on piers of circular section with rudimentary moulded capitals; similar columns to weaving sheds. Rhyddings Mill is an interesting example of a mid-19th century textile mill designed with considerable architectural pretensions as part of a larger-scale urban development consisting of employees' housing, speculative housing and the parish church. This was the first independent weaving mill in Oswaldtwistle, built by Watson Brothers, later Robert Watson & Sons, who also had a mill at Stonebridge, on the other side of the river. In 1930, the mill had 280 employees and 699 looms worked by a 270 hp beam engine; manufactured fabrics were mainly printers, dhooties, jacconettes and dobby cloth. A second weaving shed was erected in 1951 and equipped with 250 electrically driven looms. Production ceased on the site in 1957. http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa..._CAA_Final.pdf __________________ 'If you're going to be a Kant, be the very best Kant there is my son.' Johann Georg Kant, father of Immanuel Kant, philosopher.