Furness Vale Printworks once had several mill ponds fed by a mill lade from the River Goyt. These appear in a number of our archive photographs but as several have now been filled, it is not easy to identify them.
Peter Gorry, who is familiar with the locality has been comparing these pictures with historic maps and these are his findings.
Your blogspot: Thursday, 3 January 2013 Furness Vale Printworks has some great photos. The 5th one has a caption:
"The mill lodges viewed from station road. These have long since been filled in and little sign remains of them."
I’m certain this is actually the view from the back gardens of Lakeview cottages (old Furness Row, adjacent to the canal). Direction shown on 1898 map below. The house at the very left of the picture is 1 Bank View (current owners of the industrial park). You can see it clearly in picture 3 in the same set (woman on Bank view, and the middle millpond to her right. The very far millponds are no longer there (now Trident Foam) but the two closest ones are in the grounds of Lakeview House. Although the nearest pond has been substantially filled in the middle one is still complete and can be seen as you drive down Calico lane. Both 1 and 3 Bank View look directly along its length.
