Midland Mills is a former flax mill on Silver Street in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Binomial name Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus. ... The term mill, depending on context, can refer to: Mill (factory) – a place of business for making articles of manufacture; e. ... Holbeck is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, through which passes the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ... Statistics Population: 726,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Fire and... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ...

History

John Jubb built the first mill on the site in 1793. He soon sold his business and his mill in the early 1800's.

The new owner took advantage of the expansion of the flax spinning industry in the Holbeck area by diversifying into the manufacture of textile machinery. This machinery was sold to local and national mills, including the mills of Leeds entrepreneur Benjamin Gott. Diversification in finance involves spreading investments around into many types of investments, including stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and cash. ... An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ...

The Mills changed ownership a few year later when the owners moved to premises on Meadow Lane, selling the Midland Mills site to the Drabble Brothers who were in the employment of John Marshall at the same time as Matthew Murray was. John Marshall (1765 - 1845) was a British businessman and politician. ... Matthew Murray. ...

Drabble Brothers continued to manufacture textile machinery and also patented designs for cart axles until a disagreement between the two brothers saw their firm go bankrupt in 1812. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which... An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...

Taylor and Wordsworth, two employees of the Drabble brothers, bought the site in 1812 and established Taylor, Wordsworth & Co.

By the early 1850's both Taylor and Wordsworth had passed away but the company continued to trade under the same name but under new management.

In the 1930s Platts bought the factory, Platts soon became the largest textile machine-makers in the world, employing over 15,000 people. Unfortunately the economic turbulence of the 1980s caused recession and the decline of manufacturing in the UK. The factory ceased trading in 1981 and Platts followed in 1982. The closure of Midland Mills marked the end of the textile industry in Leeds. Platt Brothers & Co Ltd, (also known as Platt Bros. ... A recession is defined in macroeconomics as a decline in a countrys real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two or more successive quarters of a year (equivalently, two consecutive quarters of negative real economic growth). ...

Present

Since 1981 Midland Mills has been divided into separate industrial units. Most of these have been used for light industrial work.

Midland Mills is situated in the Holbeck Urban Village regeneration area. Template:Hang on: Holbeck Urban Village is the name given to the mixed use re-generation south of Leeds train station by local government and planning agencies. ...