Heritage Trails, Anchor Mills Interactive Map, Before Morrisons...

It is difficult to imagine how the site looked before buildings were demolished and the Morrison’s supermarket built.

The whole area previously contained a myriad of buildings used to service and carry out production, finishing, and dyeing processes. If you stand with your back to the footbridge and face towards Morrison’s store, you will be looking at the old location of the West Colour Dye Works; behind that was the thread stores and behind those, the mighty Pacific and Atlantic Mills. Turn slightly to the right and, when the site was in operation during the early 1960s, you would have seen the East Colour Dye Works. Still further to the right, where the new houses now stand, was the site of the Spinning Shed, the South Bale Store and the Filter House. Beside those buildings there stood the Mercerising Building.