The Textile Industry
Calico Printing
Kinder Print Works
It is hard to believe that in the 19th ctry a works
of such a scale once occupied what is now Hayfield Camp Site,
only the 'Lodge' (local name for a man made pond of water) a number
of large stone entrance pillars and a set of steps up to Kinder
Wood survive. The works occupied a site of earlier industrial
activity it's old name was 'Cutlers Green'. It was on this site
that the builders of the 'Earth type Dam' that was under construction
a little further up the Kinder valley from 1901-1911 found a source
of 'Puddling Clay' which is used to form the impermeable central
core of this type of dam, that is why the area is known locally
as the 'Puddle Fields'. The reservoir they created still provides
Stockport with drinking water,
Wood Print Works Hayfield
view from Hayfield Cemetery, School can be seen ctr
right
View from School Field (now called The May Queen Field)
showing two of the three mill ponds third is off to the left river
sett is just out of shot running parallel to bottom of photograph
(photo supplied by Keith Wood
)
Birch Vale Print Works
View from Oven Hill road showing Zion Chapel in foreground
railway bridge on left taking line on to Hayfield Station
Print Works Equipment
The photograph shows a Mather & Platt 'Kier' dating
from the 1920's used for Bleaching fabric prior to Printing and/or
Dyeing processes 'trucks' of plaited raw fabric were loaded into
the vessel through the opening on the left and then the large
wedge shaped door was lowered into place to form a seal note the
'Belt Drive' pulley front right connected to a centrifugal pump,
to force the 'liquor' through the heat exchanger then into the
'Kier' under pressure
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of this area ?
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