Monument record HAD 051 - Duke Street
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TM 026 422 (63m by 122m) (2 map features) |
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Map sheet | TM04SW |
Civil Parish | HADLEIGH, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (6)
- PIT (13th century to 16th century - 1201 AD to 1500 AD)
- FEATURE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POST HOLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- INDUSTRIAL SITE (19th century to 20th century - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)
- FACTORY (19th century to 20th century - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPINNING MILL (19th century to 20th century - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)
Full Description
1996: Documentary search revealed details of establishment of factory on site in 1820s. This may have been as a method of Poor Relief. This factory may have been, and certainly became, Brown & Moy's silk mill works by 1834. This was associated with a specially constructed gas works, which was in existence by 1836 and lit the town streets up to 1853 (gas works appears to be much further to N and separate on the 1880s - 1920s OS mapping!- see HAD 094).
The factory was taken over in 1869 by Cooke, Sons & Law, makers of coco fibre mats until the late 1950s. Details in (S1)(S2).
Mapped as cocoa nut (and choir) matting factory on 1880s and 1900s and 1920 OS maps.
November 1996: Evaluation by trenching of former Dawson Clark & Co Ltd site, revealed light scatter of Med features towards Duke Street frontage. Further to W built up ground masked any potential features. Details in (S1)(S2).
Recorded in gazetteer of significant Industrial Archaeological sites extracted from a 1980 booklet entitled 'Industrial Archaeology in and around Norfolk' and revised as 'Suffolk IA Sites in 1980' in Suffolk Industrial Archaeological Society Newsletter (SIAS Newsletter, 115, Nov 2011) where it is described as:
Coir-matting factory, Hadleigh. Solid workshops with large windows and heavy buttresses to take the weight.
Bob Malster adds: Demolished, replaced with old peoples' housing.
Sources/Archives (3)
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. (S1).
- <S1> SSF61260 Unpublished document: Boulter, S.. 1996. Archaeological Evaluation Report: Former Dawson Clark & Co. Site Duke Street, Headleigh.
- <S2> SSF50250 Article in serial: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. PSIAH 39 (1), p.97.
Finds (3)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
Record last edited
May 16 2023 1:44PM