Stockport cotton mill

Weir Mill, rising on Chestergate in Stockport, fired up in 1790 as one of the town’s earliest cotton mills, powered by the River Mersey’s weir. A red-brick behemoth of the Industrial Revolution, it spun thread for Britain’s empire, its looms clattering through the 19th century. Worked by hundreds, it fell silent in the 20th century, […]