Employing thousands of people many spinging and weaving mills were located along the East Belfast rivers, These included Grove Spinning and Weaving, Doagh Spinning and Owen o'Cork. The Former viewing directly down in to the Hollow made famous by Van Morrisons Brown eyed girl song.
Some mills used the water as a soure of power untl the 1950's. Today many of theses former mills have been converted to office and buisness use.
As part of the £40 million regeneration project by the Connswater Greenaway project several new bridges were put in place across the Connswater river.
Heritage information - Avoniel Distillery - A distillery was situated in this area although little information exists about it. Avoniel was a Grain Distillery which produced around 850,000 gallons of whiskey per year. In 1908 it was part of the United Distilleries Co (UDC) Ltd, which also included two of the Derry Distilleries and Connswater Distillery. UDC was taken over in the early 20th Century by DCL of Scotland which then shut down the plants.
Owen O’ Cork Mill - Now an auction house, office space, and workshop for local artists, Owen O’Cork Mill was part of the linen tradition of east Belfast. It was built as a corn mill by the De Beers, a Hugenot family who came to Belfast from Europe. In the mid- 1800s it became an important linen mill, as the opening of the Lagan Canal allowed raw materials like flax to be brought by barge down to Belfast and up the Connswater River to the mil
Cache is accessible 24/7 and has disabled access as well - although wheelchair users may require some assitance to retrive the cache from its hiding place.
Cache is a magentic nano placed on the Mill Bridgeso bring your own pen / tweezers. Please place cache back excatly were found to prevent it from being muggled. This area is busy all the time and at this time of year the bonfire builders are located less then 100 meters away - thou beind trees.l.