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Worrall Street, Ordsall: Archaeological Excavation |
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Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd unpublished report series
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| Abstract: |
Archaeological excavation of remains of a 19th and 20th century dye-works and associated back-to-back housing. The site is located approximately 2 km southwest of Salford City centre, central Manchester lies c. 0.8 km to the east of the site which is situated on the north bank of the River Irwell, to the immediate east of the river’s canalisation for the Manchester Ship Canal. The site covers approximately 0.31 hectares and is set with a wider landscape of domestic housing consisting of 19th century terraced housing and 21st century apartment blocks. Prior to the site works it was occupied by 20th century light industrial units. The excavation was targeted at buildings shown on historic mapping which relate to a dye works owned and operated by J. & J.M. Worrall who in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the world’s largest dyers of velvet and corduroy. Established in the late 1700’s, their Ordsall dye-works was established in 1792 and operated until the company went out of business in 1964. The excavation was targeted at an engine house, boiler room and back-to-back housing shown on historic mapping. The first definite depiction of the engine house is on a map of c. 1850. The excavation found the foundations for a single cylinder beam engine and associated fittings similar to those produced by Boulton and Watt in the first decades of the 19th century. Additional documentary evidence found during the writing of this report suggests that it was a 40-horsepower engine sold for scrap in 1924. The boiler house lay to the immediate east of the engine house. It is first shown on the same 1850 map as the engine house, but the excavation found that it had been totally rebuilt in the late 1800s. The excavated remains showed that the rebuild was for two 30-foot Lancashire boilers of a type common in the late 19th century. Their capacity far exceeded that needed for the adjacent steam engine and it is likely that they supplied steam and hot water across the dyeworks. The back-to-back and blind back houses at the northern end of the site were constructed in 1850-1. The most significant evidence from these structures was the provision of blocks of toilets. These were probably among the first provided in working class houses of this type in Salford and a perhaps a reflection of changing social attitudes to housing at that period. |
| Author: |
Mark H Adams
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Headland Archaeology
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2023
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Salford |
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Salford |
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England |
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Greater Manchester |
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Salford, unparished area |
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Grid Reference: 382272, 397343 (Easting, Northing)
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24 Nov 2023 |
