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UPPER MILL & LOWER MILL

UPPER MILL
Next on the route of the stream comes Upper Mill, then occupied by Mr John Farrar. 

Here the flood washed into the mill, did serious damage to the engine, and swept nearly all of the dyehouse away, together with a great amount of mungo or “devil’s dust.” 

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One of the boilers was carried away, calculated to weigh 6 tons, and this was swept down by the flood to Berry Brow, fully four miles from its original position. 

On the day previous to the flood Mr. Farrar had drawn about £700, which he deposited in the counting house of the mill, and this sum was swept away by the waters. 

The damage was estimated at about £3,000.

LOWER MILL
A little below Upper Mill stood a factory called Lower Mill, which was built across the River Holme. 

When the flood came upon its great portion of the building was swept away, the two ends being almost all that was left standing. 

The mill dam was also burst. 

A bed with two little children upon it was swept out of one of the houses and the poor creatures were drowned in the factory yard. 

A little further down a third child was discovered dead.