Nind Mills

Millman, Hunt & Co.,

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Samuel Long & Co.,
Nind Mills, Wotton-under-Edge

Manufacturers of Fine Woollen Cloths, Printers' Blanketing, Serges, Worsted Coatings, etc.

At one time Wotton-under-Edge was the centre of a number of mills of more than national reputation, though from various causes they were one by one suspended. A portion of Nind Mills premises having been in use for upwards of three centuries.

The freehold premises owned and occupied by the Company comprise sixteen acres in one tract. A noticeable advantage is the fine water power available, with an unfailing supply sufficient to drive three large water-wheels. The reservoir is fed by the "Little Avon," and as the Nind Mills are the first to use this stream, they have the further advantage of a supply of uncontaminated water, a very important factor in the production of the fine colours for which their weaves have become noted. The motive power is supplemented by steam and gas engines, the gas being generated on the premises by a plant designed and erected by a well-known Gloucestershire engineering firm.

They manufacture all kinds of high grade cloths from Australian and German wools only, including among their specialities hunting buckskins and scarlets, military cloths, cricket, tennis and shirting flannel, billard, piano, and carriage cloths, box cloth, Devons in all colours, etc. They also made a special feature of best quality printers' blanketings, of which they probably made a larger quatity than any other one firm in the district.

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