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Nixon Street, MANCHESTER, M35 0FW

With Ashton Road West Bridge

In Lancashire it's mills not fairies at the bottom of gardens. This is a disappearing scene. The street is a bit too modern and middle class for "Corrie" but there are still examples (I'll try to find one). The Mill is Regent Mill, Failsworth. Built 1906 and designed by G Stott. It was powered by a large inverted vertical triple expansion steam engine but that and the chimney are now gone.

This mill is opposite the better known Regent Mill in Failsworth. Owen Ashmore lists it as Failsworth Mill but I can't find it in Gurr and Hunt (The Cotton Mills of Oldham). Alexander P Kapp has done some research and found several companies listed as at Failsworth Mill - so this does seem to be its identity. I reckon late Victorian. Chimney has gone but the boiler house (room for two Lancashire boilers), engine house (money on a horizontal cross compound) and rope race survive. The sloping section above the engine house indicates a rope drive and the metal plates in the square section indicate the bearing boxes for the shafts driving the two upper floors. You can divine a lot just by looking. I would welcome any further information.

From Ashton Road West.

The former mill, built alongside the Rochdale Canalat Failsworth in 1906, is now used as a factory by Remington/Russell Hobbs.

This mill is opposite the better known Regent Mill in Failsworth. Owen Ashmore lists it as Failsworth Mill and it is also in Gurr and Hunt (The Cotton Mills of Oldham). Built 1897 and extended in 1901. Had 15,000 mule spindles in 1915. Chimney has gone but the boiler house (room for two Lancashire boilers), engine house (money on a horizontal cross compound) and rope race survive. The sloping section above the engine house indicates a rope drive and the metal plates in the square section indicate the bearing boxes for the shafts driving the two upper floors. You can divine a lot just by looking. I would welcome any further information. Demolished for housing in 2014

This is bridge No.79 on the Rochdale Canal. Regent Mill towers over the scene, a trick of the perspective.

This spinning mill was built in 1906 to the design of G Stott and housed 60,000 ring spindles driven by a Buckley and Taylor inverted vertical triple expansion engine of 1800 horsepower. The cylinders had Corliss valves and were 24", 39" & 63" bores x 4' 6" stroke. It ran at 75 revolutions per minute and drove by 36 ropes from the 26' diameter flywheel. The mill ceased production in 1966 but remains in good condition and in alternative commercial use. This shows the single storey office block next to the entrance to the mill yard. There is sufficient ornamentation to relieve an otherwise plain building. A similar treatment extends to the gate posts.