Trent Mill

The Trent Mill was off Duchess St Shaw in a cluster of mills in the Smallbrook area of the town.This consisted of the Hawk,Wye 1 and 2,Trent and Duchess.It was built by J Partington and Sons Chadderton in 1908 and the architect was F.W. Dixon & Sons who also designed the Rutland on Linney Lane.A distinctive trademark of Dixons was the use of stone turrets on the water towers or corners of the mill buildings and the other notably was white banding around the chimney stacks top and bottom of where the lettering was usually placed.It was "dual purpose" mill in other words it was used for both mule and ring spinning.It also had a 1800 hp "cross compound" engine by George Saxon & Co of Openshaw with 30" HP cylinders and 40" LP cylinders driven by Corliss valves operating at 65rpm with a 26ft Flywheel driven by 40 ropes to operate the Platts 120,000 spindles for the manufacture of Mule,Twist,Weft and Ring yarns.It was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 reopened in 1938 and finally closed in 1962 eventually being demolished 1967- 1969

Thank you to Scott Ptolomey for this info