Askern History
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<strong>Askern</strong> Saw Mills<br />
1891<br />
Started in 1947 as a small family business<br />
supplying timber to local coal pits. In the<br />
late 1960s it began manufacturing timber<br />
drums for the cable industry.<br />
The saw mills operated on the site of South<br />
Parade Baths, which remained until the<br />
1950s as a reminder of <strong>Askern</strong>’s spa town<br />
era, albeit with a variety of different uses: a<br />
carpet factory, a second hand shop and an<br />
Apostolic Church.<br />
South Parade Baths - a new well was sunk to<br />
supplement the water from the baths, the<br />
overflow formed a separate lake<br />
<strong>Askern</strong> saw<br />
mills, aerial<br />
in 1957<br />
<strong>History</strong>
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