Button Street was a site of industry before it gained its name from the Bone Mill, with one of the Toll Bars for the “t’ Ingelewhite Bull Fair I th North” fairs being located on this street. You can still see in Toll Bar Cottage a curved shaped stone used for holding a toll bar is still in situ.
Button Mill unsurprisingly produced buttons! These buttons were commonly made out of bone or horn that was surplus or if it was imported into the village and refined in the mill. We have some records of the mill from 1849 being occupied by John Lawrenson and it is called Bone Mill, as shown on the 1840 and 1890 map of the area. Over the years it received the nickname Button Mill, this was one of the few mills in Goosnargh that stretched the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian periods as the industrial revolution in the North of England reached Goosnargh and innovation took over the country. Goosnargh prospered in this time and not only had an influx of residents to staff the small mills but also had several new buildings and growing opportunities for the villages within Goosnargh. As seen in the advertisement front page Goosnargh had several Mills and sites of industry over the centuries. Button Street also housed the Inglewhite Police Station which is a smart redbrick property known as Peelers that was used untill the Second World War. The rural police officers at this site covered the whole Goosnargh Parish and the first rural police officer in the census was Richard Miller from 1851 and took several decades to be accepted by the local community after helping with a few local cases.
