Brownsfield Mill, Binns Place,

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, England, is an early nineteenth century room and cotton-spinning power mill constructed in 1825. Hartwell describes it as "unusually complete and well preserved." The chimney is now Manchester's oldest surviving mill chimney. It is a

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listed building. The building housed the

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aviation factory in the early twentieth century.

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