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G. Winterbottom and Co., Ringinglow Wire Mills, steel wire manufacturers, from an advertisement in Melville Co.'s Commercial Directory of Sheffield

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Title:	G. Winterbottom and Co., Ringinglow Wire Mills, steel wire manufacturers, from an advertisement in Melville Co.'s Commercial Directory of Sheffield
Location:	Sheffield_Ringinglow
Date:	1859
Date Period:	1800-1850
Photographer:	Melville and Co
Notes:	From an advertisement in the 1859 Melville Co.'s Commercial Directory of Sheffield, Rotherham and the Neighbourhood. The following appears in the Clarion Ramblers Handbook of 1950/51 and is an account told by Herbert Trotter of Ringinglow. 'The wire mill was built in 1844 and there was a date mark on the chimney. The mill was on the right (East side) as you turn north-west along Fulwood Lane and immediately behind the row of stone-built cottages built for the mill workers and two more between them and the Norfolk Arms. It is understood that the mill was started by Robert Cooke of Hathersage (in White's directory for 1837) and his son Robert, and came into the possession of a Mr Broomhead of Hathersage after 1855 when the mill closed down for a time. It was last worked by a Mr George Winterbottom of Barnsley who as manager for Cooke, took it over and a Mr Fieldsend became his partner.
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