Monument record MDR5671 - Erewash Mills, Canal Street and Bennett Street, Long Eaton

SK 485 345 Erewash Mills. A tenement lace factory of 1906 on a corner site. Brick-built with hipped slate roof. A 50ft brick chimney still stands which served the heating plant. Originally the factory was electrically powered from Cavendish (Portland) Mills. Now occupied [in 1986] by Sunspel, underwear manufacturers, and by Panlima, lighting manufacturers. (1) A single-storey tenement factory planned in 1906. In 1908 six lace makers and a jacquard card puncher occupied the mill but by the 1920s the majority of the mill was occupied by non-lace tenants. (2)