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Ray Mill, Stalybridge

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Ray Mill, Stalybridge. June 2011
Ray Mill, Stalybridge. June 2011

Ray Mill was a mill in Stalybridge, UK. A five-storey, electrically driven red brick spinning mill built in 1907. It contained 66,528 ring spindles and 9000 doubling spindles. Together with Premier Mill it was using 3,050 horsepower (2,270 kW) of electricity. The syndicate of owners also owned Victor Mill and Premier Mill. In 1911 the three companies merged to form Victor Mill Ltd which employed 1500 people. Ray was spinning medium counts from American cotton. By 1950 the company was part of the Fine Spinners and Doublers Association, and was taken over by Courtaulds in 1960 and was still in production until 1982. On 17 March 2018, a huge devastating fire broke out in the mill which took over 50 firefighters from across Greater Manchester to deal with.The building housed 15 businesses at the time of the fire. The building was largely destroyed by the fire and subsequently demolished.

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Ray Mill, Stalybridge
Tame Street, Tameside Hollins

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SK15 1QF Tameside, Hollins
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Stalybridge railway station (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)

Stalybridge railway station was an Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR) station in use from 1846 to 1917, it was the terminus of the company's line from Manchester Victoria. The station was built by the Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR) and opened as the terminus of its 8+1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) Stalybridge branch from Manchester Victoria on 5 October 1846. The station was "a simple structure with one platform". The station was located adjacent to the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (SAMR) Stalybridge station that had opened in 1845, the terminus of that company's line from Guide Bridge. The AS&LJR amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR), and others, to form the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR)) on 9 July 1847. The two adjacent stations were combined in 1849 when the owning companies, the L&YR and the MS&LR, agreed to provide a double junction between the branch lines and to open a joint passenger station, but with separate booking offices on the site of the MS&LR station, a joint goods depot with separate warehouses taking the place of the L&YR station. In 1849 the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) opened a line to Huddersfield from this combined station, and the station came to be jointly owned by the MS&LR and L&NWR but also used by the L&YR. The station continued to be used by all three companies, and despite being enlarged in 1858 and getting refreshment rooms in 1859, it remained unsatisfactory and on 1 October 1869 the L&YR re-opened their original station for passenger use. In 1884 a large goods warehouse was built. In the 1890s the station had one terminal platform with a bay on either side of it. The station building was at the eastern end directly facing Rassbottom Street. A goods shed and warehouse were to the north of the passenger station accessed by small turntables, it was able to accommodate most types of smaller goods including live stock, but not furniture vans etc., it was equipped with a ten-ton crane. The station closed to passengers on 2 April 1917 and to freight on 22 February 1965.