Industry

The small factories on Sarehole Road were started during World War I. There was to be no further industrial growth in what was designated a residential suburb, except for Newey Goodman, already established earlier and no spoiler of the amenities in its pleasant grounds. The Webb Lane premises found other users, and light industry appeared at Warstock between the Wars. Those relics of rural industry the watermills all went out of use within a few years of each other; farming activity lingered for a time.