f Mons). There was a later company Mons Mill (1919) Limited which took over the mill in 1919.
The mill was originally powered by an engine built by Carel Frères of Belgium which drove about 73 belts.
In the 1950s, it was bought by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation which, in 1964, was taken over by Courtaulds. In 1968, the mill closed. From 1971, the building was used by Ward & Goldstone Limited until the 1990s when they left.
In the 1970s, the mill chimney was reduced by 30 ft. In 1986, the mill chimney and the engine house were demolished. The site was cleared in March 2000.
|Notes: Now demolished and replaced with housing. It was driven by a 1400 hp inverted vertical cross compound engine by George Saxon built in 1906.|
|Newby formerly Elm Mill||Joseph Stott||Linney Lane, Shaw and Crompton||1890||125|
|Notes: Opened as Elm mill in 1890 but the name was later changed to Newby. In 1950 it was a mule spindle mill supplying mule weft and twist. In 2008, now named Shaw No 3, it is part of Littlewoods' Shaw National Distribution Centre who have adapted it for warehousing and bulk storage for their catalogue distribution operations. It's linked by a new building to Lily (No.2) mill and by a bridge to a newer building that occupies the site of Rutland mill. Signs of its cotton heritage can still be seen including its engine house with original crane system which is still largely intact.|
The 1950 mills (O–T)
|Notes: Four floors from 29493 sq ft, 9425 sq m (103,820 sq ft) in total. Driven by a George Saxon, 1250 hp engine. It weighed 22 tons and drove a 22 ft flywheel. In 1915 it had 62000 rings. In 1960 it was taken over by Ferranti, it stands (2009) in mixed industrial use and is up for sale at £1,900,000. |
|Pilot||Bury SD 812,099|
|Notes: In 2008 the mill and engine house remain, the chimney is gone. Occupied by a luggage manufacturer. Driven by 2000 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by J & E Wood, 1906. 23 1⁄2-inch (600 mm) HP, 36 1⁄2-inch (930 mm) IP, two 40-inch (1,000 mm) LP X 5-foot (1.5 m) stroke. 200 psi, 66 ½ rpm. 24-foot (7.3 m) flywheel, 46 ropes. |
|Regent||George Stott||Failsworth||1906||1958, 1966|
|Notes: Plans extant in Oldham Local Studies Centre. This was designed as a ring mill (thus lower head room was required than in a mule mill) it was 345 feet (105 m)by 130 feet (40 m) It was four storeys high. The cellar contained a warehouse, yarn cellar, waste room, cotton room, and dust room; the first floor was the card room; the second floor was the ring frame room; and the third floor was the winding, warping, and beaming room. It was powered by a marine type vertical triple-expansion engines built by Buckley & Taylor of Oldham in 1906 with 1,800 installed horsepower. The engine had a 63-inch-diameter (1,600 mm) low-pressure cylinder and was sometimes loaded to 2,000 ihp. It ran until 1958, when it was scrapped. It ran 60000 spindles. There was a 26 feet (7.9 m) flywheel, 26 ropes operated at 64 rpm. The mill was acquired by the LCC around 1930. The chimney was 210 feet (64 m), it and the boiler house were demolished in 1964. It is now owned by Salton. |
|Notes: Rock Mill, Wilshaw Lane and Oldham Road, Waterloo, was built on the site of the earlier Wilshaw Mill, making use of its octagonal chimney. Rock Mill was demolished in 1971 for the construction of an Asda store. Driven by a 1250 hp triple-expansion four-cylinder engine by George Saxon, 1892. It had a 16-foot (4.9 m) geared flywheel, 18" wide.|
|Notes: Driven by a 900 hp inverted vertical triple-expansion engine by J & E Wood, 1907. It had a 14/16 ft flywheel with 20 ropes, operating at 94 rpm. The original three Tetlow boilers still supplied steam at 180 psi, when in 1961 electric drives were installed,Watkins records: The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Royd Mill, Hollinwood. Cotton Spinning. Royd, built in 1907, was one of the smaller mills, the engine built by J & E Wood of Bolton developing 900 hp. The cylinders, of 18.5, 28.5, and 43in bore by 3 ft 6 in stroke, were all fitted with Corliss-valves, which in contrast to the maker's usual practic