taken 41 years ago, near to Chadderton, Oldham, England
Elk Mill
Built 1926 and driven by a Parsons steam turbine that drove the mill by ropes and the neighbouring Shiloh Mills by electricity. Scrapped in 1983.
The mill finally closed in 1998.
It used cotton mules until 1974.
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