Bracewell/Ingleton and Earby corn mill index entries.

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Bracewell/Ingleton and Earby corn mill index entries.

BRACEWELL. WILLIAM
Quarries, Coal, Clay and Cloth: Nineteenth Century Industry in the Wenning and Greta Valleys, by Muriel Humphries, Ewecross Historical Society, 2003.  Says Mr W. Bracewell owned Ingleton Collieries and, pre 1869, backed John Towler in running Ingleton cotton mill. He died in 1887.  I think Phil Hudson, of Settle, sells copies.

EARBY MILL
The Corn was ground at an old mill which stood in the hollow below where Tim Gorton built his greenhouse and which was turned by water power from Wentcliffe Beck. In those days the lane now called Sticky Lane was in full use and was called the "Old Mill Lane". It passed across Stoneybank near Moor Hall and Baw Head and farmers brought bags of grain on pack saddles along it to be ground. For a few years before its destruction the mill was used for cotton spinning. [from Earby & District in Bygone Days by James Lindley]

QCCC
Quarries, Coal, Clay and Cloth: Nineteenth century Industry in the Wenning and Greta Valleys. By Muriel Humphries. 21003. Published by Hudson History at Settle. ISBBN 1-903783-24-0.


COAL. BARNOLDSWICK.
Beware of references to coal produced in Barnoldswick. QCCC page 13: ‘The Burton potters used coal from the hamlet of Barnoldswick’. This refers to the Barnoldswick near Ingleton and not Barnoldswick in Craven.

BRACEWELL AND BARKER.
QCCC, PAGE 13. Reference to Bracewell and Barker making bricks at Ingleton. William Bracewell was the first to make use of the railway which arrived at Ingleton in 1849. He had his own railway wagons on the main line. James Barker took over the pits from the Bracewell executors who had built a tramway to the main line from the Ingleton Colliery and Brickworks. A subsequent court case over the wayleave for this resulted in a fine of £10,000 and bankrupted Barker. There is a suggestion that Bracewell also worked Wilson Wood Colliery at Ingleton.

BRACEWELL AND INGLETON COAL
QCCC. Page 17. Bracewell bought the royalty of Wilson Wood Pit in 1872 and installed proper pumped drainage. The shaft was 118 ft deep and had drowned out in 1866 drowning all the ponies. Bracewell built Beech terrace (Brick Row0 on the Tatterhorn Road to Bentham. He installed two sets of pumps at Wilson Wood, a 16” and a 21” set both driven by horizontal engines. The period when Bracewell was active in the Ingleton coalfield saw the peak of employment there.

BRACEWELL. BRICKWORKS AT INGLETON
QCCC. Page 30. At Ingleton too there were brickworks. Joseph Carr stated that Mr. Bracewell made large quantities of bricks for his own use but the business collapsed after his death' The row of cottages which he built for his mines near Wilson Wood colliery was aptly nicknamed 'Brick Row' though its proper name was Bracewell Terrace. When James Barker took over the Ingleton Collieries and sank three shafts near Enter Farm he took out small quantities of fire clay which made excellent bricks. These were originally made by hand but in 1896 the demand was so great that he installed modern machinery to extend his business' It is claimed that the Winter Gardens at Morecambe was built with Barker's bricks but this has not been proved. When Barker's colliery business failed the Ingleton brickworks closed too.

BRACEWELL AND INGLETON COTTON MILL
QCCC. Page 41. Sometime before Oct 23rd, 1869 John Towler with Bracewell's backing, began to run the Ingleton mill. Towler was still running the mill in 1881, but the cotton industry was in a bad state and the mill closed down. The machinery was taken down and some was sent to India. The census shows that there were two engine tenters so this mill was steam driven.

SCG/01 May 2004