Llanidloes - the flannel makers
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The Spring Mills factory
The fine photograph shown below is of Spring Mills flannel factory in Penygreen Road at Highgate, Llanidloes around 1891. It was built in 1875 by Thomas Jones, one of the most enterprising of Llanidloes manufacturers, and it was one of three flannel factories in the area which had only used steam power.
Spring Mills factory
Llanidloes
National Library
of Wales
Although Thomas Jones had built the Spring Mills factory, enlarged the Cambrian Mills and commissioned Summerfield Park, a large house overlooking the point at which the Rivers Severn and Clywedog meet near Llanidloes, his last years were marked by severe poverty due to the collapse of the local flannel trade.
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