Water Street, Portwood

Water Street, Portwood looking north, taken from Avenue Street. Looking underneath the railway bridge, on the left hand side, the first building used to be a public house called 'The Beehive', further along was Kent & Swarbricks tripeworks, now a precision engineers, then North West Concrete Works (Easymix). On the right is Coxson's Brushworks, then the Portwood Mill, Kershaw's Tannery and the Meadow Mill at the bottom of the street.