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• The Douglas Mill Inn in Lanarkshire was a posting-house located
along the Glasgow-Carlisle Turnpike, where travelers could rest, change
horses, and obtain refreshments
The inn was a one
storey slated dwellinghouse at which is a Turnpike Gate at which whole
rates [are] payable
The route from Glasgow to Carlisle was
historically known as the Glasgow-Carlisle Turnpike.
In use in 1843,
it seems to have been demolished by 1861.
• Douglas Mill
in Bradford is a Grade-II listed mill and Coach House, built in the 1840’s on Bowling Old Lane.
The mill has been refurbished by Kier to create teaching facilities for the Dixons Sixth Form Academy. Work began on the £13.3 million project in December 2018 and was completed in spring 2020.
Restoration challenges included repurposing the listed Coach House, which had been unoccupied for 20 years, to create changing facilities for an adjoining new-build sports hall and designing a dining area within a basement space.
The refurbishment retains the mill’s original features such as corridors of white pillars and original brickwork. Nearly all rooms benefit from natural light from the mill fenestration patterns on the front and exterior elevations. The building has a modern, light, airy feel which provides high quality accommodation for the 850 students studying at the Academy.
• Douglas Mill, Wigan, is used the operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities.
• Douglas Mills, Co. Antrim; In 1726, skilled spinners from Fermanagh came to live in Douglas, where they established 40 looms to spin sailcloth. By the 1740s, Douglas looms produced 75,322 yards of sailcloth per annum. A series of Huguenot families – Perdieu, Cossard, Besnard – were associated with the industry, but Julius Besnard was the outright owner by 1783
• Douglas Mills, Donnybrook, Ireland. The first mill was set up in 1726 by a partnership of local merchants. They brought a number of weavers from Fermanagh and set up 40 sailcloth looms in Douglas.
John Scott Douglas was head hunted for the job of converting the mill. He stayed in Cork for one year and then decided to bring his family over from Scotland. As manager of the Donnybrook mill John was well liked by the employees having a reputation for being “firm but fair”. He converted the mill from flax to worsted wools and worked until he was 90. He ran a tight ship!!! He purchased dyes from Bayer in Germany. Wastage was not tolerated!!!!
The last mills in Douglas closed in the 1970s. Douglas mill history spans almost 250 years.
• Douglas mills, Cork, Ireland. A number of the present day suburbs of Cork city have evolved out of settlements associated with textile mills dating to the 18th century. Douglas is one of these suburbs.
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Sources for this article include:
Lanarkshire OS Name Books, 1858-1861
The Woven History of Douglas - Facebook
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