Tansley Village

Lumsdale - A treasure of Industrial Archaeology

The road through Lumsdale in the 1800s.
The low building on the left was the Smithy which has been renovated by the Arkwright Society and can be seen in the picture below. The lower two stories of the mill which remain have been made safe and the windows filled in to prevent vandals entering. The building on the right was the weighbridge which no longer exists.

Outside the smithy

Some old mill buildings


	The chimney is situated at the top of the hill and is connected to the upper and lower bleachworks in the valley by a long flue over 100 yards long running underground. Periodically the flue had to be swept and this was done by boys who crawled through the flue. One entrance to the flue is shown in the right hand picture.

The Lower Dam - Lumsdale
The Dam is stone lined which is unusual and can be drained by removing a 'plug' in the bottom

Pond cottages, lower dam - Lumsdale

Cloth was transported between the Upper and Lower Bleach Mills in tubs which ran on tracks made from hollowed out stone blocks the remains of which are shown in the left hand picture.
The track ran alongside a stone wall and under a small arch as shown in the right hand picture.