Ainsworth Mill
With the end of 2016 fast approaching it's probably about time I got to work putting my backlog of reports up. Explored this one back in summer after an impromptu bus ride in the general direction of Bolton led me straight past it.
Ainsworth Mill was one of the 53 mills that LCC owned in 1950, but there has been a mill on the site since 1825. Yarn was received from other mills in the group in warp or in hank, and was mercerised, bleached and dyed; it was then then wrapped into hank, cone, quiller pirn, back beam, weaver’s beam, cheese or precision wound multiple end cheese as required. On LCC demise, Ainsworth Mill continued in business as a bleaching and dyeing work until the dyeing company that went into liquidation in 2006. A tiny section of the abandoned site is now used by the company Cash4Clothes.
All in all, not a bad wander.
With the end of 2016 fast approaching it's probably about time I got to work putting my backlog of reports up. Explored this one back in summer after an impromptu bus ride in the general direction of Bolton led me straight past it.
Ainsworth Mill was one of the 53 mills that LCC owned in 1950, but there has been a mill on the site since 1825. Yarn was received from other mills in the group in warp or in hank, and was mercerised, bleached and dyed; it was then then wrapped into hank, cone, quiller pirn, back beam, weaver’s beam, cheese or precision wound multiple end cheese as required. On LCC demise, Ainsworth Mill continued in business as a bleaching and dyeing work until the dyeing company that went into liquidation in 2006. A tiny section of the abandoned site is now used by the company Cash4Clothes.
All in all, not a bad wander.