The Anglo Scotian Mills is former lace factory in

Beeston, Nottinghamshire Beeston is a town in the Borough of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, south-west of Nottingham city centre. To its north-east is the University of Nottingham's main campus, University Park. The pharmaceutical and retail chemist group Boots h ...

. It is a

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building.

History

The firm was established by Francis Wilkinson (1846-1897) in the 1870s in Beeston. The original mill buildings were destroyed by a fire on 29 April 1886. The falling walls of the mill destroyed several cottages and the damage was estimated at £300,000 (). Six years later, on 30 April 1892, another fire broke out which destroyed the mill. The damage this time was estimated at £100,000 (). The current building was erected on

Wollaton Road, Beeston Wollaton Road, Beeston runs north from its junction with High Road, Beeston to Derby Road. History In 1853 a baptist chapel on the road was purchased by the Primitive Methodists and in 1882 they rebuilt the chapel in its current form. The street ...

in 1892. The architect was James Huckerby of The City, Beeston. In 1893, as a consequence of the strike by coal miners at Wollaton, Trowell Moor and Clifton, the mill owners were forced to reduce their operating hours to eight per day to conserve stocks of coal which consequently reduced the wages paid to 1,000 workers. On the death of Francis Wilkinson in 1897, the business was taken over by his older brother George Wilkinson until 1909 when the factory was sold to the owners of the nearby Swiss Mills. The new owners, the Pollard family, let lace machine standings and a cotton store to Parkes & Tomlin and eventually Parkes purchased it in 1922. In the 1940s, the main building was taken over by electrical components & injection moulding manufacturers Ariel Pressings Ltd. In 2000 manufacturing ceased & the building was converted into luxury apartments.A History of Beeston Lace, Professor Stanley Chapman, University of Nottingham.

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