ROSE STREET MILL
Dalton Street
Todmorden
Map Ref SD 937244
Known occupiers
1866-1881
HORSFALL & STEPHENSON
Luke Horsfall and Thomas Stephenson
1881-1883
HORSFALL Luke
1884-1885
CROWTHER J. & Co.
1888-1899
2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Additional information
researched, recorded and referenced by Mrs Sheila Wade
Hebden Bridge WEA Local History Group
Notes from John Travis, contemporary historian:
Horsfall & Stephenson built a weaving shed for 200 looms and engine house etc. for their own use on a plot of land in Vale Street, Tipside, near the JOINT STOCK MILL engine house.
White 1866
Horsfall & Stephenson, Rose Street Mill, cotton manufacturers (Thomas Stephenson house – Mount Pleasant, Luke Horsfall house – Bath Street).
Stansfield Rates Book 1867-69
Owned and occupied by Horsfall & Stephenson; mill & power; Hope; rateable value £76.6s.2d.
1868 – warehouse raised one storey £7.12s.0d.
Rivers Pollution Commission 1869
Horsfall & Stephenson, Dalton Street, cotton spinners.
Employ 96 hands; rateable value £87.10s.0d; water from river; manufacture yearly 320 tons of goods, value £36,500; steam nominal 16hp; use 400 tons of coal yearly.
Stansfield Rates Book 1870-1880
Owned and occupied by Horsfall & Stephenson; mill & power; Rose Street; rateable value £83.18s.2d.
1880 – re-valued £101.5s.0d.
Kelly 1871
Horsfall & Stephenson, Rose Street Mill, cotton manufacturers
Halifax Guardian 14th January 1871
12 calico pieces stolen from Luke Horsfall, Rose Street Mill Todmorden.
Census 1871
Luke Horsfall, Bath Street, aged 46, cotton manufacturer.
Thomas Stephenson, 10 Mount Pleasant, aged 53, cotton manufacturer.
Slater 1875
Horsfall & Stephenson, Rose Street Mill, calico manufacturers
Kelly 1877
Horsfall & Stephenson, Rose Street Mill, calico manufacturers
Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Advertiser 1st August 1879
Rose Street Mill – 240 looms full time
Stansfield Rates Book 1881
Owned and occupied by Luke Horsfall; mill and power; Rose Street; rateable value £85.
Halifax Courier 5th May 1883
Liquidation by arrangement; Luke Horsfall, Rose Street Mill, Todmorden, cotton manufacturer; estimated liabilities £3,500.
Halifax Courier 12th May 1883
Creditors meeting, Luke Horsfall, cotton manufacturer, Rose Street Mill. Liabilities unsecured £2,600, secured £1,400; assets £200. Composition of 1 shilling in the pound accepted 26th May 1883.
Todmorden Advertiser 25th January 1884
To let with immediate possession, weaving shed containing 144 looms with warehouse, winding-on room etc. Rose Street, Todmorden, late occupied by Luke Horsfall. Apply Frank Horsfall, York Street Todmorden.
Todmorden Advertiser 28th March 1884
Auction 2nd April. Machinery in Rose Street Mill, late occupied by Luke Horsfall; 98 powerlooms with 35 inch reed space; winding-on frame; cloth press; plaiting machine; weighing machine etc.
Todmorden Advertiser 14th November 1884
Wanted on 1st December – 20 machinists and 30 finishers for new wholesale clothing works, Rose Street Todmorden. Apply J. Crowther & Co. Hangingroyd Clothing Works, Hebden Bridge.
Halifax Courier 15th November 1884
J. Crowther & Co. wholesale clothiers, Hebden Bridge, have purchased shed formerly occupied by Luke Horsfall of CROW CARR INGS. The place is being supplied with sewing machines.
Stansfield rates Book 1885
Owned and occupied by James Crowther & Co; shed and power; Rose Street; rateable value £56.15s.0d.
Stansfield Rates Book 1888-1899
Owned and occupied by G. Company Volunteers; drill shed; Dalton Street; rateable value £12.15s.0d.
30th August 1897
Mr. Luke Horsfall of Manchester, formerly of Byrom Street, died suddenly whilst on a visit to the Isle of Man, having left Manchester for that place on 17th August. On Thursday August 26th he was taken ill and died 4 days after from violent diarrhoea, at the age of 70 years. Whilst resident in Todmorden Mr. Horsfall was a manufacturer at Rose Street Mill (now used as the drill hall), under the style of the firm Horsfall & Stephenson. He was interred at Cross Stone Church on September 3rd.
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