VICTORIA MILL
Built Mid 19th century.
1861 – Ashton created a 999 year lease for Henry Heys
[Date of Build Register – Kate Slingsby]
First reference in 1861 – Henry Heys, Stubbins Lane – cotton spinner. [Drake]
Henry Heys ran the mill for a number of years – he is mentioned in the Worrall Directory of 1871 at Victoria Mill, Stubbins Lane. He is also listed in the 1876 Valuation List for Tottington Lower End [PUB/8/25] `` – Henry Heys, warehouse, Stubbins Lane.
By 1883 he has formed the firm of The Victoria Cotton Mill Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers of Stubbins Lane. Henry Tattersall Manager and Secretary [Barrett]
1887 Victoria Cotton Mill Co Ltd , Victoria Mill, Stubbins Lane – 331 looms – shirtings dhooties, jaconetts and mulls. [Worrall]
1888 Victoria Cotton Mill Co. Ltd – cotton Manufacturers, Stubbins Lane.
Henry Heys lived at ‘James Terrace’ Ramsbottom Lane. [Slater]
Hume Elliot makes the reference: .....’Victoria Mills, with which the name Henry Heys has long been associated’.... [Elliot page 151]``
The 1892 Rate Assessment Book lists Victoria Mill Co. – weaving shed – owner Henry Heys, Stubbins Lane.
The mill is marked and named on the 1908 map. It is also marked and named on the 1939 map but at that time it was ‘disused’.
1909 [Kelly] The Helmshore Manufacturing Co Ltd. Cotton goods manufacturers, Victoria & Peel Bridge Mills.
1910 Owner Henry Heys. Occupiers: Helmshore manufacturing Co Ltd. Weaving Shed GER £311 {Valuation List PUB 8/164 Bury Archives]
1916 (28th November)Fire at Victoria Mill - £7,000 worth of damage. [Diary of a Postman - Barlow]
1918 J H Ashworth & Co owner occupier weaving shed Victoria Mill, Stubbins [ Valuation List Supplementary to 1910 PUB 8/164 Bury Archives]
1924 [Kelly] Weaving, Doubling & Beaming Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers, Victoria Mill, Stubbins Lane.
Found reference to Smith & Nephew, Stubbins Lane in 1967. Possibly this mill or one of others on Stubbins Lane.
Henry Heys was a J.P. and a churchwarden and Treasurer at St Paul’s Church.
In 1883 Henry Heys, gentleman, lived at 61 Ramsbottom Lane. [Barrett]
In 1883 Henry Tattersall, cashier & manager, lived at 65 Stubbins Lane.[Barrett]
Across from the house was a low wall behind which was a goyt. This fed Victoria Mill where we used to play. Across from the mill was the Working Mens Club and next to that The White Lion.[RHS Magazine No:2 1991 – Molly Rothwell]
Janet Smith suggests that the FLOCK MILL next door could have been part of Victoria Mill but I have found no evidence of this.
Gutted by fire after World War 2. [ Around Ramsbottom page 112]
Now site of Ramsbottom Fire Station.