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This came from the Cheshire FH newsgroup ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyn" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:49 AM Subject: [CHS] Smelthouses, Macclesfield > John Earles, in his ' Streets and Houses of Old Macclesfield' tells how > this area got its name. Charles Roe owned a copper mine on the island of > Anglesey and the ore was refined in Liverpool ( where the Herculaneum Docks > were) and brought to Macclesfield to be made into coins, wire, brass and > copper-plate. There was a large building, with an open space, called The > Smelthouses, where the ore was melted , and some of it made into shot or > pellets.In the Brasshouses metal was made into sheets of copper for use in > ships, brass wire, pans etc.. A large windmill was used for grinding the > ore. Roe wanted to build a canal from Liverpool to Macclesfield but the > bill was defeated in the House of Lords (no thanks to The Duke of > Bridgwater!). Eventually Roe gave up the copper business in Macclesfield > and the premises were demolished or turned into dwelling-houses. Calamine > Street, Smelthouses, Windmill Brow and Brasshouse Street are all reminders > of Roe's copper business. > Lyn > > > ==== CHESHIRE Mailing List ==== > Cheshire County Record Office: > http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/recoff/home.htm > > >