Bailey Mill.
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Information on Bailey Mill is relativley scarce and very hard to come by, all we have so far managed to reveal is that the mill was built in three seperate stages in the 1800s with new sections being added each time.
Apart from that we know nothing else apart from the fact that the mill was part of the textile industry around Oldham and produced fine quality fabrics up until the mill relocated further up the road in Delph.
The strange thing is that half of the original looms and machinery are still in situ, scattered through out the mill.
Access to the mill is tricky to say the least and at best very dangerous with some rather severe drops in places but apart from that it is worth the effort to see what it holds inside.
Sadly the outer buildings which where possible to explore until recently, house the offices and are now well and truly sealed with no access at all, the same applies to some of the outer workshop areas too, leaving only the mill itself now possible.
From what we did see of the sealed buildings they didnt look that interesting anyway, so it was not great loss not seeing inside them.
Once inside you notice virtually every floor is strewn with cotton bobbins of every color you can imagine, theres even the old whicker baskets still in situ that was used to transport fabrics and cotton round the mill.
The most impressive sight in the mill is the giant cotton loom on the top floor still loaded with cotton and a half woven patch of fabric stuck in between the combs.
The basement also has machinery and is packed wall to wall with even bigger looms than upstairs as well as other random bits and pieces.
Whilst exploring the mill Saul_Son found an original blueprint of the mill and actually blue as well, a first for most of us seeing I think.
The last place to explore was the water tower above the main section of the mill but this was only explored by Lawrence and Mito as the rest of us where too busy admiring the cotton looms.
Around two hours where spent exploring this site before we moved onto another explore down the road in Oldham.
The last company to occupy the mill has moved further down the road into Delph itself.
Date : August 2007 : Location : Oldham : Explorers : Havoc : The New Mendoza : Lawrence :
Romanian1 : Saul_Son : DCG : Mito : SXJ
