Qualla: Union Mills https://qualla.com/union-mills en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/union-mills-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Union Mills https://qualla.com/union-mills Union Mills: Introduction https://qualla.com/union-mills/ Photo credit Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0. Five Shillings British, the card promised, payable to the bearer on demand. The promissory note was issued on 4 September 1811, signed by William Kelly, and stamped Union Mills. It was private money - the local currency of a single mill complex on the River Dhoo - and it tells you almost everything you need to know about how this village came by its name. In 1807, Kelly had added a cloth mill to the existing corn mill on the site, christened the new partnership Flail and Fleece United, and started paying his workers in scrip that they could spend at the company shop. The Union Mills are gone now. The village they named is still here.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/union-mills-wp/gcsu-union-mills-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Union Mills: The Mill on the Black Ford https://qualla.com/union-mills/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. Long before the union, the place was known as Mullin Doway: the Mill on the Black Ford. The name first appears in the records in 1511. For three centuries it was a corn mill on a small Manx river, no more or less notable than dozens of others scattered across the island. William ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/union-mills-wp/gcsu-union-mills-roads-races-and-a-memorial.mp3 0:06 3 full Union Mills: A Railway That Came Back, Briefly https://qualla.com/union-mills/ Photo credit Shazz, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Union Mills station opened on 1 July 1873 as one of the original stops on the Isle of Man Railway's Douglas to Peel line. The line was single-track, but the station here had a passing loop where trains heading in opposite directions could meet. The line closed on 13 November ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/union-mills-wp/gcsu-union-mills-a-railway-that-came-back-briefly.mp3 0:06 4 full Union Mills: Village Life in Braddan https://qualla.com/union-mills/ Photo credit Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0. What remains is a working Manx village. The Railway Inn is on Main Road. There is a former Methodist Church, and a Wesleyan chapel whose foundation stone was laid on 6 March 1930 - the previous chapel still standing alongside. There is a Spar shop with a small Post Office. Cronk ...

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