Anglo Scotian Mills
{{Short description|Former lace factory in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England}}
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|location = Wollaton Road, Beeston
|location_town = Nottingham
|location_country = England
|architect = James Huckerby
|client = Francis Wilkinson
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|completion_date = 1892
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The Anglo Scotian Mills is a former lace factory in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It is a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE |num=1263854 |accessdate=22 April 2015}}
History
The firm was established by Francis Wilkinson (1846-1897) in the 1870s in Beeston. The original mill buildings were destroyed by a fire on 29 April 1886.{{cite news |author= |title=Local and Domestic Fields |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001896/18860430/067/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Journal |location=England |date=30 April 1886 |access-date=15 September 2019 |via=British Newspaper Archive }} The falling walls of the mill destroyed several cottages and the damage was estimated at £300,000 ({{Inflation|UK|300000|1886|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).{{Inflation-fn|UK}} Six years later, on 30 April 1892, another fire broke out which destroyed the mill.{{cite news |author= |title=Latest Particulars |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18920430/033/0003 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=30 April 1892 |access-date=15 September 2019 |via=British Newspaper Archive }} The damage this time was estimated at £100,000 ({{Inflation|UK|100000|1892|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).{{Inflation-fn|UK}}
The current building was erected on Wollaton Road, Beeston in 1892. The architect was James Huckerby of The City, Beeston. In 1893, as a consequence of the strike by coal miners at Wollaton, Trowell Moor and Clifton, the mill owners were forced to reduce their operating hours to eight per day to conserve stocks of coal{{cite news |author= |title=Beeston |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001896/18930901/120/0006 |newspaper=Nottingham Journal |location=England |date=1 September 1893 |access-date=15 September 2019 |via=British Newspaper Archive }} which consequently reduced the wages paid to 1,000 workers.
On the death of Francis Wilkinson in 1897, the business was taken over by his older brother George Wilkinson until 1909 when the factory was sold to the owners of the nearby Swiss Mills. The new owners, the Pollard family, let lace machine standings and a cotton store to Parkes & TomlinPollard, E. Pollards of Beeston, 2006 and eventually Parkes purchased it in 1922.Nottingham Industrial Archaeology Society Journal. Vol 10, part 2, Mar 1985
In the 1940s, the main building was taken over by electrical components & injection moulding manufacturers Ariel Pressings Ltd. In 2000 manufacturing ceased & the building was converted into luxury apartments.A History of Beeston Lace, Professor Stanley Chapman, University of Nottingham.