Anglo-Scotian Mills, Wollaton Road, Beeston, 1997

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Anglo-Scotian Mills, Wollaton Road, Beeston, 1997

Courtesy of Ian Brown, LRPS

67 Wollaton Road
Beeston
Nottinghamshire
England

Anglo-Scotian Mills was built as a lace curtain factory in 1877 by Francis Wilkinson, when it was one of the largest in the world. It suffered serious fires in 1886 and 1892 after which the present Gothic frontage was constructed. It is now listed by the Department of the Environment as being of special architectural or historical importance. At the north end of this building can be seen a very tall domestic chimney in the factory wall (left). This belonged to a cottage, long since demolished, to which the dissolute Nottingham boxer Bendigo retired after his religious conversion, when he became an evangelist. (information from www.nottingham.ac.uk)

Date: 1997

Organisation Reference: NCCS002634

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