MANY of the villages of South Cumbria were once busy places of industry – making use of the free power from rivers to operate machinery.
Geoff Pegg, from the Holme History Project, will be describing the activity in this village at the next meeting of the Duddon Valley Local History Group.
The talk is from 7.30pm on Wednesday, June 28, in the Rankin Room of the Broughton Victory Hall and all are welcome.
In 1790 the lease of a miller’s house, malt kiln and corn mill at Holme was sold for £460 to Quakers Charles Parker and Joseph Waithman of Yealand.
A new canal linked Kendal with Lancaster by 1819 and was of great benefit to the business which had changed from milling to producing textiles from flax.
In the 1820s the mill had the first steam engine in Westmorland.
In 1859 the mill was sold for to a Belfast flax spinner and became the Holme Mills Flax Spinning Company.
In more recent years the mill made heavy duty matting before closure in 1975.
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