Left, Keystone from the Facade of Engine House Dean Mills Barrow Bridge

Timeline

1831 Built - Robert Gardner

1843 Gardner and Bazley

1862 Sir Thomas Bazley

1862 -1877 William Romaine Callender

1877 Closed

1895 - 1913 Dean Mills Company

1913 Mills demolished

1948 September 2nd
A suggestion that Barrow Bridge might be taken over by the Parks Department and used as a boating lake was made by Counc. O'Hara (Lab) at Bolton Town Council today. He said the Parks Department might be interested in development in connexion with Moss Bank Park. The lake might be used for boating or other form of recreation. A recommendation that the land and the lake, at present on lease to W. and E. Helme should be granted to Mrs Rimmer for a period of five to seven years, was referred back to the Finance Committee for further consideration.

1972 Oct 24th About £20,000 is to be spent on restoring the character of Barrow Bridge. Streets are to be paved with traditional materials like flagstones and granite sets and old-style street lamps installed. The disused Dean Mills Institute may be bought by the Corporation and turned into a museum for heavy textile machinery.