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April 14, 2020

Joseph, Edgar and Arthur Appleby; Lancashire Millers

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

The weekly millers' journal Milling is the parent of today's Milling and Grain. Founded in 1891, it contains well-illustrated articles about mills, the milling trade and particularly the men who were leading the roller mill revolution.

Now largely exiled from Lancashire, as well as a retired miller, my attention was drawn to a couple of articles from early issues of Milling that highlighted a family of fellow Lancastrians who had a lasting impact. The items from September 23rd 1892 and May 20th 1893 were followed up by another dated June 5th 1893.  I found the latter in The Miller, the other veteran magazine for British millers, which lasted for 100 years but did not have a white knight to rescue it and make it fit for the 21st century.
 


The impressive Appleby family of Lancashire millers goes back to 1841 when Joseph Appleby settled at Enfield Mills.  A 2009 Heritage Assessment for British Waterways describe the mill in Clayton-le-Moors, two miles north of Accrington, as steam powered, built in 1827-1828, extended in the 1872 and demolished in 1968. Milling ceased in 1920 and it became part of the Enfield Soap Works in 1922 prior to its demolition.

The Enfield Mills were at the half-way point of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the Appleby Family made good use of the canal by having their own fleet of barges to transport their products. Joseph conducted most of his business at the Leeds and Wakefield markets every week until 1865, when the growing importance and advantages of a sea port led him to switch to the Liverpool Corn Exchange. His son, Edgar Appleby, born at Enfield Mills, began his career as a miller in 1858, and in 1862 took charge of his father's mill at Accrington, afterwards the mill at Burnley in 1868, and in 1873 the management of the Blackburn Mills, known as the Daisyfield Mills, built by Joseph in 1871 as a millstone mill.


Read more HERE.
 

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