Grade II
Western No.2 Mill (Also known as Eckersley's Mills)
Swan Meadow Road, Wigan
Description
Integrated cotton mill comprising spinning block with associated boiler house, engine house and chimney, and winding and beaming rooms (former weaving shed demolished); now mostly in multiple occupation as business units, and winding and beaming rooms latterly used as clothing factory. Dated 1888; by AH Stott & Sons, for Farington Eckersley & Co.Ltd.; altered. SPINNING BLOCK of common brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings (roof concealed but probably asphalt). Large rectangular plan on east-west axis with projected turret on north side containing entrance (large C20 addition in left angle of this). 4 storeys, 20:4:1:8 windows; with panelled corner pilasters terminating in dentilled cornices, coped parapet, and stepped upstand to turret inscribed "1888".
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Courtesy of Ron Hunt and wiganworld, lots of images of the Mills, the workers, and memories - Link
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More images from an illegal visit - Link
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