Hespeler purchased land along the river and built several industrial mills.

Hussain is noted as one of the wealthiest investor in defence production, military technological development, and industrial mills.

The Bombay textile industry until the 1950s was largely homogeneous, dominated by a relatively small number of large industrial mills.

By the 19th century, Uxbridge had twenty different industrial mills.

Not until the second decade of the 19th century did gaslight spread from industrial mills to urban street lighting and domestic lighting.

After that time, gaslight was no longer limited to industrial mills and was introduced into urban life.

And in the new industrial mills of Britain it was so treated.

Prior to this the valley had no road, just a series of cart tracks connecting the various industrial mills.

Most of the industrial mills in the area were either destroyed or severely damaged but were quickly rebuilt with compensation money from the Water Company.

Many of the industrial mills on the River Don were badly damaged and all the boundary walls by the river were swept away.