ELK MILL, OLDHAM Hardscape has helped bring local history to life working with Vector Design Landscape Architects and sculptor Emma Hunter as part of the Elk Mill Shopping Park redevelopment project in Oldham. The landscape architects were commissioned by owners, British Land, to create a scheme marking the legacy of Elk Mill – Oldham’s last working cotton mill, which originally started production in 1928 as the largest in the UK. Reflecting the days when mill workers would walk barefoot to avoid slipping on the oily mill floors, Hardscape crafted raised bronze footprint castings set in stone using high-tech stone masonry machinery. The paving feature historic images relating to the mill chosen by local community partners and can be found all around the shopping centre. Designed with a dua

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