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The township was absorbed by Stockport in 1901^[1]. Stockport provided (1907)[1] a combined library, fire station, swimming baths and a small mortuary ^[2]. Farms surrounded by housing existed until the 1980s (eg Ashbrook Farm, & the one by Broadstone Mill). The land sloping down to the River Tame (see Reddish Vale) remains mostly undeveloped, and some industry has been removed.

Andrews was taken over in 1905 by Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham^[3]^[4], and the business transferred to Grantham and the Reddish works closed some time during the great depression following WWI^[4]. Cronin indicates that the works were still in operation in 1930.^[5].

1 Closures
- 1.1 Modern Reddish
2 Schools
3 Stuff waiting for a home
4 Memorials
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Closures

Broadstone Mill, 1959 (Holden p168)(Ashmore p84)
Greg's Victoria, running 1975 (Ashmore p84)
Greg's Albert, running 1975 (Ashmore p84), closed in 1982 (Cronin p79)
Atlas wire, 1927 (Ashmore p86)
Spur Mill, 1972 (Ashmore p85)(cronin p79)
Vale printworks, closed by 1975 (Ashmore p85)
Vauxhall/Craven's, closed by 1975 (Ashmore p86) closed in 1970 (Cronin p85)
Houldsworth, cotton production ceased by 1958 (Cronin p77)

[edit] Modern Reddish

Combined library, fire station and baths.

Reddish is missing several components that would make it a self-contained modern town. For example, there is no hospital or cinema, and there is only a single medium-sized supermarket (run by Morrisons).

Of the 1907 facilities provided by Stockport, only the library is still open. The baths closed in 2005; there is a campaign to reopen them^[6], but it does not have the backing of the council ^[7]. The ground floor of the fire station is used as a community centre. The mortuary closed in the 1980s^[2].

All the cotton mills and the canal that fed them are closed. Broadstone mills are partly demolished, with the remainder used for retail and office space; all three Houldsworth mills are either converted or being converted (2006) to residential and light industrial use; Greg's mills were demolished but the site and the surrounding industrial estate still contains a mix of industrial and service industries. Regeneration efforts at Houldsworth Mill were instrumental in Stockport Council winning British Urban Regeneration Association's award for best practice in regeneration[2].^[8] £12 million has been spent to convert the mill into mixed use.^[9] The area around Houldsworth mill is now desiganted as a conservation area.^[10]^[11]

[edit] Schools

It has been decided to to close Fir Tree Primary, North Reddish Infants and North Reddish Junior Schools ^[12] and there is a proposal to build a new school at Harcourt Street <<os ref>>. The site was formerly a clay pit for a brickworks, and later a landfill site. Much of the landfill took place before modern controls, and there is local concern about the suitability of the site ^[12] ^[13] ^[14].