Stanhill ring spinning mill

[cashman]

just been in again today, its a red brick building looks very much like a mill roof from inside, asked the guys there, they were not sure,but said they thought it used to be "Cobble" which i assume must be "Singer Cobble"? maybe westender or someone can corroberate?

[West Ender]

Originally Posted by cashman

just been in again today, its a red brick building looks very much like a mill roof from inside, asked the guys there, they were not sure,but said they thought it used to be "Cobble" which i assume must be "Singer Cobble"? maybe westender or someone can corroberate?

I found this, Cashy, when I googled Cobble. They appear to make carpets but it says Norman Rd. is the guage parts division. It wasn't there 45 years ago


http://www.cobble.co.uk/docs/COB005.pdf





This is the building. It's definitely the old laundry. The blurb says it was sold by Cobble to Winchester Furniture.

[BERNADETTE]

My brother worked at "Cobble" years ago but it was near Copy Nook. Would there be more than one factory up and running?

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

My brother worked at "Cobble" years ago but it was near Copy Nook. Would there be more than one factory up and running?

they also had a big factory/works out near Cherry Tree/Witton area , had a reputation as a good company to work for

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by steeljack

they also had a big factory/works out near Cherry Tree/Witton area , had a reputation as a good company to work for

Sounds like they were a big company, my brother worked there for years and if I remember rightly he travelled overseas quite a lot whilst working for them.

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Sounds like they were a big company, my brother worked there for years and if I remember rightly he travelled overseas quite a lot whilst working for them.

yep , think they made machines for making carpets (tufting equipment ?) , they used to have crews which travelled all over the world doing installation once bumped into a bunch of them in a bar in Isfahan Iran

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by steeljack

yep , think they made machines for making carpets (tufting equipment ?) , they used to have crews which travelled all over the world doing installation once bumped into a bunch of them in a bar in Isfahan Iran

You may well have met him then he definetly went to Iran.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I found this, Cashy, when I googled Cobble. They appear to make carpets but it says Norman Rd. is the guage parts division. It wasn't there 45 years ago


http://www.cobble.co.uk/docs/COB005.pdf





This is the building. It's definitely the old laundry. The blurb says it was sold by Cobble to Winchester Furniture.

ah thats the one, the little black door at the bottom is where you go to acess the upstairs,cheers west ender.

[West Ender]

Where that grotty caravan is, in the picture, used to be the end of the row of terraced houses. The long cement-fronted bit, with the door in it, was a big double-doored opening on to a huge room where all the laundry parcels went. Further up the road was another similar room where they had all the clean laundry parcels. Somewhere in the building, I'm not sure where as I never saw it, was a big furnace which heated water in a huge boiler.

They had a horse-drawn van for delivering the parcels, in the 40s, and the driver, who knew my family well, was called Alf. If he saw me waiting at the bus stop at Church Commercial, on the way home from school, he would stop and give me a lift in the van with all the brown paper parcels of laundry. I always felt very proud and very honoured when he dropped me off at my front door.

[ossypete]

Originally Posted by katex

Well done on finding that West Ender ... that should keep Ossypete happy too .. not that he has thanked us like for our efforts ....

"was the offices of the ring mill not in the building still standing on norman rd? seem to vaugley remember Fred Dibnah demolished the old chimney, could be wrong on that as well." quote from Cashy.

Well Fred Dibnah demolished most chimneys around here, didn't he Cashy ? (can you imagine what he was like as a little lad !).. don't know the answer to that .. but will ring Winchester tomorrow to ask if their premises are the offices of Stanhill. Doubt it though, if you had read my earlier post....

been checking this post for days after i posted it nothing happens , then suddenly it goes mad !!! i am greatfull for the info , i actually lived on the housing estate where the mill was on turnpike grove. house across road from where i lived was built on the old engine beds. :-)

[katex]

Originally Posted by ossypete

been checking this post for days after i posted it nothing happens , then suddenly it goes mad !!! i am greatfull for the info , i actually lived on the housing estate where the mill was on turnpike grove. house across road from where i lived was built on the old engine beds. :-)

Glad we could help Ossypete .. took lots of discussion though .. good thread .. enjoyed.

[andrewparkeruk]

Eleven years on, I may be able to add some information. My Dad did the building maintenance at Stanhill Ring mill in the 1970s until it closed; I am pretty sure he was there when the VW Scirocco ad was filmed. My Mum worked in the offices at both Vine Mill, then Stanhill Ring. As a kid I was quite familiar with both mills.
The flat roof of Stanhill Ring mill was designed to hold rainwater. I remember being up on the roof with my Dad and it looked like a series of ponds. If I remember correctly the roof was sealed with tarmacadam, and the water was to stop the tarmac blistering and failing. I think the water was a couple of feet deep.
I worked for a few weeks at Vine Mill when part of it was operated by Bentley&Whitehead; that would have been 1973 or 1974.
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