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Maple Mill in 1915
Maple Mill's architect was Sir Philip Sydney Stott, born 1858 in Oldham and one of a family of mill architects. His father was Abraham Henthorn Stott, who founded the firm of A.H. Stott & Sons, which employed Philip's older brothers, Jesse Ainsworth Stott and Abraham Henthorn Stott Junior. Philip was the most prolific and famous of Oldham's mill architects. He established his own practice in 1883 and designed over a hundred mills in several countries. He was one of the last architects to adopt the concrete floor, preferring to rely on triple brick arches supported by rolled steel beams. His mills are also identified by his use of two corbelled rings on the mill chimney, instead of the usual single ring seen on most other mills. Stott's career spanned over forty years. His first mill in Oldham was the Chadderton Mill (1885) in Fields New Road, a few streets from his childhood home, and Maple Mill was his last. He was made a baronet in 1920.
Today, Maple Mill is home to companies specialising in the production of complete fitted kitchen furnishing kits for the domestic market, and sees over 300,000 self-assembly kitchen sets per year going through its gates as flat-pack units for delivery throughout the UK.
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