Beehive Mill

Beehive Mill

Beehive Mill is a Grade II* listed former cotton mill in the district of Ancoats, Manchester, England.cite web |title=Beehive Mill, Manchester |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=388211 |publisher=Images of England |accessdate=2008-05-27] It is located at (grid reference gbmappingsmall|SJ850987) on a site surrounded by Radium Street, Jersey Street, Bengal Street and Naval Street.

The building was constructed in three phases, the first two being in the early 1820s with the third phase being added in 1847. The second phase, built in 1824 and used as warehousing is an important example of early fireproof construction. The roof of the 1824 warehouse belonging to Beehive Mill is the only known surviving example in Manchester of an advanced form of mill roof using cast and wrought iron, and which was prefabricated. [Williams with Farnie (2003), p. 64–65.] The third phase was five storeys high and built along Bengal Street; this block was damaged by fire are partially rebuilt in 1861. [Williams with Farnie (2003), p. 151–153.]

The disused Bengal Street block of Beehive Mill was completely destroyed by fire in July 2005. The fire threatened to destroy the rest of the complex, which houses a nightclub and offices. In an effort to extinguish the fire water was pumped from the nearby Rochdale Canal.cite web |title=60 firefighters fight mill blaze |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4677817.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-07-13 |accessdate=2008-01-04] [cite book |last=Miller |first=Ian |coauthors=Wild, Chris |title=A & G Murray and the Cotton Mills of Ancoats |publisher=Oxford Archaeology North | location= Lancaster |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-904220-46-9 |pages=161]

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*cite book |author=Williams, Mike with Farnie, D. A. |date= [2003] 1992 |title=Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester |publisher=Carnegie Publishing Ltd. =|isbn=0-948789-89-1


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