Monument record MDR5678 - Britannia Mills, Bennett Street, Long Eaton

SK 487 344 Bennett Street, Brittania Mills. This tenement lace factory of 1906 is a large single storey north light roofed building in orange/red brickwork having decorated roundels to the Bennett Street frontage and with its name picked out in white glazed bricks. Built for William Wallis & Sons Ltd. Now part of the premises of Messrs. Elson & Robbins, manufacturers of springing for the upholstery industry [1986]. (1) The original single-storey building of this complex, now almost joining Cavendish Mills, was planned in 1907 by a factory company of which the lace maker, William Wallis & Sons, was the main shareholder. William Wallis, born in 1838, had extensive lace interests before building this mill. The firm never completely occupied the whole of Britannia Mill, therefore other tenants shared the premises. By 1929 the majority of the mill was occupied by an artificial silk manufacturers and by 1936 was no longer used for lace. (2) Now vacant [2005]. (3)