page_title: Galgate
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Galgate / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: Galgate Silk Mill Galgate Silk Mill, was the oldest surviving silk spinning mill in England and was built in 1792, until its closure in 1971. It is now used for retail, business and manufacturing.
context_page_description: Galgate is a village in the City of Lancaster, just south of Lancaster University, and about 3 miles south of Lancaster itself in the English county of Lancashire.
context_section_description: Galgate once had a thriving silk industry and many of the installations still stand. One story told is that because the rhubarb grown locally was used for dyeing the silk, Galgate's community newsletter is named 'Rhubarb City News'. Rhubarb is a prolific plant in Galgate, but this idea that it was used to dye silk seems to have no evidence to support it.
  Galgate had a water powered corn mill, which was replaced by the 1792 stone three-storey wooden beamed mill of Thompson, Noble and Armstrong. It had a projecting stair tower and mill pond, with cast iron pillars inserted later. The second three storey mill was built in the early 1800s, made of stone with internal cast-iron pillars and a seven aisled roof. The third mill from 1851 is a five storey brick built mill with corner pilasters and an internal beam engine house.
caption: Built in 1851, this five-storey brick mill was the fourth on this site.
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