Monument record MDR5704 - Nottingham Road Mills, Nottingham Road, Long Eaton

Type and Period (1)

LACE FACTORY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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SK 494 338 Nottingham Road, Nottingham Road Mills. A single storey, brick-built tenement lace factory having a pitched slated roof and constructed at right angles to Nottingham Road. Now [in c. 1986] F M Steed, furniture upholsterers. (1) A single-storey tenement factory of 19 standings was designed, and apparently owned, by J F Dodd. Divided into three sections, it was occupied by three different lace makers until the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s only one, Wilfred H Fox, remained and the mill was soon occupied by non-lace tenants. (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

<1> SDR6754 Bibliographic reference: Fowkes, D. 1986. Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology - A Gazetteer of Sites. Part II - Borough of Erewash. p 32.
<2> SDR18854 Bibliographic reference: Mason, S A. 1994. Nottingham Lace, 1760s-1950s. p 285.

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Grid reference	Centred SK 494 338 (100m by 100m)
Civil Parish	LONG EATON, EREWASH, DERBYSHIRE