Jennymount Mill - BIH #2 Traditional Cache
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Jennymount Mill, North Derby St - a spectacular group of buildings
you pass as you head north out of Belfast - the seven-storey red
brick block by Lanyon, the long roof ridge of the four-storey
spinning mill, and one of the most exciting and beautiful chimneys
in Ulster. Second in a series on Belfast's Industrial Heritage
(BIH).
Jennymount mill is important for a variety of reasons. The earliest
buildings on the site date from 1856, but in 1864 the offices,
engine house and chimney were constructed and are adorned with
carved heads of Wordsworth, Galileo, Shakespeare and others from
the workshop of the Fitzpatrick stone carvers. Similar heads are to
be seen on Yorkshire House, Donegall Square. The classically
proportioned spinning mill runs parallel to the railway, but the
most impressive building on the site is the Italianate palazzo
building of 1891 designed by John Lanyon (son of Charles).
This part of north Belfast was once the heart of 'Linenopolis',
employing tens of thousands of people, predominantly women, in flax
spinning and weaving. It housed both the extensive York Street mill
complex (now demolished and replaced by Yorkgate), the Milewater
mill (now the site of Thomson's feed mill) and the Jennymount Mill.
In 1955 there were 34,216 spindles in operation at Jennymount. The
mill was owned between c.1870 and 1959 by Philip Johnston and Sons
of Jordanstown. It closed in 1965.
Today, Jennymount is important because it is one of the most intact
mills remaining within greater Belfast.The seven-storey Lanyon
building has recently been refurbished as offices, but the rest of
the site is dilapidated and at risk. A campaign in 2000 saved the
site from demolition, but for how long?
The cache is a magnetic nano. Please exercise stealth in
locating and replacing it.
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