Upper End Mill

Along with the Factory, Upper End Mill was established as a cotton spinning mill in the 1790s by John Haigh who, along with his brothers Thomas and Samuel had a number of mills in the village.

The Factory and Upper End Mill are shown on the 1801 Marsden-in Huddersfield Township map and the 1854 O.S. map joined together as an L-shaped building next to a large mill pond which, today, is a car park that is still known as Waterside.

Both mills were powered by a waterwheel fed from the mill pond and also a steam engine 'in very dry seasons'.

The cotton industry in Yorkshire was short-lived and John Haigh became bankrupt in 1809. Upper End Mill was put up for auction along with the Factory. Both mills bacme woollen mills

A photograph of Lakeside from the 1890s shows Upper End Mill as a substantial four-storey building positioned at right angles to the Silk Mill. Tenter posts can be seen on the lane leading down to the mill from Warehouse Hill.

A later photograph, c1910 shows the mill as a smaller two-storey building which is no longer attached to the Factory. Upper End Mill was a hostel for Polish ex-servicemen who came to Marsden to work in the mills after World War II. During the 1970s and 80s, it housed a Youth Club and today it is a day nursery and preschool playgroup.