Textile Mill, Chadderton

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Coordinates: 53°32′35″N 2°08′25″W / 53.5431°N 2.1404°W / 53.5431; -2.1404
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Hick, Hargreaves & Co
Installed horse power (ihp)1300 hp
Equipment
ManufacturerPlatt Brothers
Ring Frames path98,436 spindles (1915)
References
[1]

Textile Mill, Chadderton was a

Potts, Pickup & Dixon for the Textile Mill Co. Ltd, and closed in 1927. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the late 1940s and passed to Courtaulds
in 1964 and used for cotton waste sorting. Half of the building was destroyed by fire on 11 July 1950, but the remaining section continued to be used for cotton waste sorting by W. H. Holt and Son until 1988.

Lancashire England

Location

Oldham is a large town in North of England Greater Manchester, England.[2] It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) south-southeast of Rochdale, and 6.9 miles (11.1 km) northeast of the city of Manchester. Oldham is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham; Chadderton and Hollinwood are such settlements. Chadderton and Hollinwood are served by the Rochdale Canal and the Hollinwood Branch Canal. A rail service was provided by the Oldham Loop Line that was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

History

Oldham rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of

cottage industry township producing woollen garments via domestic manual labour, to a sprawling industrial metropolis of textile factories.[4] The first mill, Lees Hall, was built by William Clegg in about 1778. Within a year, 11 other mills had been constructed,[5] but by 1818 there were only 19 of these privately owned mills.[6]

It was in the second half of the 19th century that Oldham became the world centre for spinning cotton yarn.

Potts, Pickup & Dixon. By 1871 the town of Oldham had more spindles than any country in the world except the United States, and in 1909, was spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.[10] By 1911 there were 16.4 million spindles in Oldham, compared with a total of 58 million in the United Kingdom and 143.5 million in the world; in 1928, with the construction of the UK's largest textile factory Oldham reached its manufacturing zenith.[6] At its peak, there were over 360 mills, operating night and day;[11][12]

The industry peaked in 1912, when it produced 8 billion yards of cloth. The Great War of 1914–1918 halted the supply of raw cotton, and the British government encouraged its colonies to build mills to spin and weave cotton. The war over, Lancashire never regained its markets. The independent mills were struggling. Textile Mill was closed in 1927.[13] The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry.[14] Textile Mill, Chadderton bought by the LCC, after World War II, and used it for storage of baled waste for export, and one of the 53 mills that survived through to 1950, when it was partly burnt out. Courtaulds sold it in 1966. The use for cotton waste continued. In 1996 it was reduced to two storeys.[13]

Architecture

Power

1300 hp engine by

Hick, Hargreaves & Co

Equipment

In 1915, 98,436 spindles – used by Platt as a show mill[13]

Usage

Owners

  • Textile Mill Co Ltd (1882–1920)
  • Bunting Group(1920–1927)
  • Lancashire Cotton Corporation (1945+ -1964)
  • Courtaulds (1964–1966)
  • W.H. Holt and Son (1966–1988)
  • Noor Textiles (2003-present)

See also

References

  1. ^ LCC 1951
  2. ^ Greater Manchester Gazetteer, Greater Manchester County Record Office, Place Names T to W, archived from the original on 18 July 2011, retrieved 9 July 2007
  3. ^ Oldham County Borough Council (1973), Official Handbook of Oldham
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-85972-048-9
  5. ISBN 5-00-095162-X
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-9528930-3-7
  7. ISBN 978-0-297-76681-0
  8. ^ Gurr & Hunt 1998, pp. 1–5.
  9. ^ NW Cotton Towns Learning Journey, spinningtheweb.org.uk, retrieved 14 September 2007
  10. ^ Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (2001), Contaminated Land Strategy 2001 (PDF), oldham.gov.uk, p. 16, archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2008, retrieved 11 March 2008
  11. ^ Visit Oldham – The History of Oldham, visitoldham.co.uk, archived from the original on 6 August 2007, retrieved 16 September 2007
  12. ^ Spinning The Web - Oldham, spinningtheweb.org.uk, retrieved 28 June 2006
  13. ^ a b c Gurr & Hunt 1998, p. 52
  14. ^ Dunkerley 2009

Bibliography

External links
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