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Shudehill Mill
Shudehill Mill or Simpson's Mill was a very early cotton mill, in the centre of Manchester, England. It was built in 1782 by partners of Richard Arkwright, and destroyed by fire in 1854, rebuilt and finally destroyed during the Manchester blitz in 1940. It was one of the larger Arkwright mills, built 3 years before his patent lapsed. In order to provide the water flow over its 9.1m diameter water wheel, a Newcomen atmospheric engine was installed. Doubts remain as to the actual function of this engine, whether it was a failed attempt to power a mill directly by steam that was modified to assist the wheel. Some believed that this engine, constructed by Hunt, could have been one of the thirteen engines installed into Manchester mills by Joshua Wrigley. Water flowed from the upper storage pond over the water wheel to drive the mill. The steam engine recycled the water up from the lower storage pond to the upper storage pond. This was soon augmented by three Boulton and Watt engines to provide power for the increasing number of spindles. The mill was damaged by fire in 1854, and destroyed in an air-raid in October 1940.
==Location==
Shudehill is an area in the centre of Manchester, near its highest point. Shudehill mill was built between Miller Street and Angel Street to the north of Rochdale Road; it is now a car park. The River Irwell and Mersey had been made navigable as far as Manchester in the 1720s, which opened the way for importing cotton and exporting the cloth. The Bridgewater Canal ran from the coal fields at Worsley to the Castlefield Basin; it opened in 1761. Arkwright had patented a water frame for the spinning of cotton, and then in 1775 he solved the other problem by patenting a mechanical carding engine. He took out a second patent that year for drawing and roving. All the pieces were in place for a large automated spinning mill to be built in Manchester. Shudehill Mill which was a watermill, was not on any stream, but derived its power from cycling water between two storage ponds, a steam pump was used to replenish the upper pond from the lower.
Shudehill Mill was close to three of Manchester's great stations, Manchester Victoria railway station, Manchester Exchange railway station and Oldham Road railway station. Shudehill Interchange is the present metro station. The mill itself would lie under the shadow of the CIS Tower. The Shudehill Conservation Area is the other side of the tower.
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