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the mill with a purpose made building. Nearby residents were informed of the demolition of
Rutland mill and its replacement with a new 'one storey' warehouse, which was duly approved. Demolition took place in 1993. In reality the new building, which opened in 1997, although is technically 'one storey', it is almost as tall as its predecessor. The
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Shaw NDC stored over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m) of products, and is made up of five buildings; three of which are converted cotton mills, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and two state-of-the-art purpose built buildings added in the mid 1990s. The first, seen from
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who used it to store "over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m) of products", ready for delivery through their distribution arm, Business
Express, which later became Home Delivery Network after the merger of Business Express and Reality. In 2011, Home Delivery Network was rebranded as
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Shaw NDC was the premier warehousing and returns facility for The Very Group, spanning 23 acres (93,000 m). It had between 850 and 1,500 employees. Around 60 per cent are women and 25 per cent are from ethnic minorities. Almost the entire workforce are members of the trade union
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from the centre of the land, to follow a path around the perimeter of the proposed building instead. The new building, which includes packing, sorting and distribution facilities complete with a large trailer yard, opened in 1997 and was put into full use in 2001.
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and so for the following 10 years, it stood in the middle of wasteland. In the 1990s permission was granted to demolish the neglected engine house and work began on building the extension to the distribution centre. This included a project to reroute the
120:'s largest private employer. In 2006 it distributed around 18 million items to customers, and in 2007 processed more than 39 million customer orders. In early 2009 the peak number of staff at the site was reported to be 1,250 people.
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relocated in 2021 to a new purpose-built facility in the East
Midlands, four of the buildings on the site, including three cotton mills, have since been demolished to make way for future plans of housing.
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group in 1964. It closed for business in 1966. The Lily mills were designed by G. Stott, and built in 1904 and 1917 respectively. They were both cotton mills until they were purchased in the 1950s by
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Meanwhile, the Dee" and "Ash mills were demolished with intention of using the land to further expand the complex. This however was prevented by the fact the Dee mill's engine house was protected by
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in the central part of the town—Lily, Lily (No. 2), Newby, Rutland, Ash and Dee. Rutland Mill was built in 1907, taken over by the
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999:. Oldham Education & Leisure.
860:"Lifelong learning at Littlewoods"
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