List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited
The Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited was incorporated 23 January 1929, and became the world's largest spinner of cotton. It acquired 104 mills and closed about half to reduce capacity. In 1950, it operated 53 cotton mills.
The 1950 mills (A–D)
|Notes: The 5 storey mill, has a floor area of 38500 sq ft. It is now used as a warehouse. It was powered by a 2500 hp cross compound engine (Mary and Elizabeth) by Urmson & Thompson built in 1920. It had a 26 ft flywheel with 42 ropes that ran at 64 rpm.|
|Notes: LCC tried to extend their activities into bleaching and dyeing. It bought Ainsworth Mill for mercerising.|
|Notes: Atlas Mill, Waterloo. was last spinning mill still working, although with artificial fibres, It was demolished in 1994 and the site is now a housing estate. |
|Notes: Ring and doubling. ring frame by Howard and Bullough, Accrington. The mill is demolished and the land put to housing.|
|Notes: 1951: Baled Waste for export. Recently Electrical works.|
|Bolton Union Mill||Bolton|
|Notes: Still standing. 15,466.00 sq m of floor space. Driven by 1200 hp tandem compound engine by J Musgrave, It had a 32 ft flywheel with 28 ropes operated at 50 rpm|
|Brunswick||David Bellhouse||Ancoats, Manchester||1840||175|
|Notes: Brunswick Mill, Bradford Road alongside the Ashton Canal, was a seven-storey mill with 35 loading bays facing directly onto the canal, with a smaller three 3/4 story block of warehouses and offices backing onto Bradford Road. The Brunswick Mill was one of the largest in Britain at that time and by the 1850s held some 276 carding machines, and 77,000 mule spindles. 20 drawing frames, fifty slubbing frames and eighty one roving frames. In 2008– it is a shopping complex of 139 m2, and 130 residential units.|
|Notes: in Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne off the Queens Road. It was powered by an Inverted vertical inline triple 1200/1500? hp engine supplied by George Saxon & Co in 1905. It had a 22 ft flywheel with 28 ropes, operating at 75 rpm. It worked through to 1966.
The mill was demolished and the site has been used for housing.
|Notes: Century mill stands but the use has changed. It has 16,674.00 sq m of floorspace.|
|Notes: Notes: This was a ring mill. The mill is now used as an enterprise centre. It was driven by a-1600 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by J & E Wood built in 1906. Its 26 ft flywheel operated at 68 rpm and ran 36 ropes.|
|Dawn||P.S. Stott||Eastway, Shaw and Crompton
|Notes: on the site of Shaw Mill at the 'dawn' of the 20th century Dawn mill was equipped with mule weft spindles in 1950. It was powered by Engines named 'Venus' and 'Mars', 1800 hp twin tandem compound engine by George Saxon of Manchester, 1902. Two 20"HP, two 40"LP X 5 ft stroke (180 psi, 64 rpm. 26 ft flywheel, 35 ropes. Corliss valves on all cylinders). Then it was sold on and up until 2005, was home to distribution company DTS Logistics and used for storing and distributing clothing. It was demolished in 2006 to make way for an Asda supermarket.|
The 1950 mills (E–J)
|Notes: Elder Mill was powered by a 600 hp vertical cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson, installed in 1937. It had a 3 ft stroke. It ran at 106 rpm. The flywheel was 16 ft.|
|Empress||P.S. Stott?||Ince, Wigan||1907||1975||68|
|Notes: Empress was a rare single storey spinning mill. In 1951 it had been re-equipped with rings, and spun general-purpose 14's. This was the last working spinning mill in Wigan|
|Notes: Powered by 1800 hp single Manhattan engine by George Saxon, 1909. 28"HP (vertical),57"LP X 4 ft 6 in stroke. 180 psi, 78 ½ rpm. 22 ft flywheel, 36 ropes. |
|Notes: Site now re-landscaped.|
|Notes: Castleton joined the Borough of Rochdale in 1899. Queensway, Castleton was a hub of cotton mills including the three 't', Th'Arrow, Th'Harp, and Th'Ensor. The 1908 Castleton map includes: Marland Cotton Mill, Castleton Cotton Mill, Globe Works (Textile Machinery), Arrow Cotton Mill, Harp Cotton Mill, Globe Leather Works, Castleton Size Works and Castleton Iron Works. Today the Harp 