This is only a partial list. Please contact me with additions or changes to the list of mills and/or jobs. Any stories, recollections, photographs or history of the mills, their management and employees would be welcome. Click on the pics to get a larger version.
Cotton Mills
Albion Mills, Ewood
Alma Street Mill
Aqueduct Mill, Ewood
Baynes (John Baynes) - Top of Cicely, Higher Audley St. -
demolished for housing.
Crossfield Mill in Crossfield Street, Grimshaw Park
Duckworth Street Mill, off Redlam
Eli Heyworth's Mill, Pringle Street, Audley
Fernhurst Mill, Bolton Road, Ewood
Hall Street Mill, Hall Street (Owd Bolton's?)
Havelock Mill, Havelock Street, Mill Hill
Higher Audley Street Mill, Higher Audley Street
Hornby Mill (Hornby, past Mayor of Blackburn. William Henry Hornby was the first Mayor and
MP for Blackburn) - off Whalley New Road - closed around the time of WW II.
Imperial Mill - where?
Kent Street - near the canal at the top of Lower Audley
Street.
Longshaw Mill, Rockcliffe Street, off Highfield Road
Ordnance Spinning Mill (W D Coddington & Sons) - large fire
in March 1929.
Owd Gant's - where?
Owd Hoppet's - where?
Owd Mike's - where?
Pickup Hartleys - where?
Pioneer Mill (owned by Frank Mercer), Mill Hill
Prospect Mill (Burke) - far end of Walter Street, off Queens
Park Road.
Parkside Mill - far end of Walter Street, off Queens Park
Road.
Rockcliffe Mill - Patterson Street, off Mosley Street (near
the Infirmary). Owned by the Boltons.
Roe Lee Mills - Roe Lee - visited in 1913 by King George V
and Queen Mary.
Royshaw Mill - where
Scotland Bank Mill, Scotland Bank Road, Livesey
Stanley Street Mill - weaving and spinning, opened in 1851 and under William Birtwistle
by 1863.
Swallow Street - off Brookhouse lane - demolished for
housing.
Wood Hut Mill, Compstey Street (back of Park Road), Lower
Audley
Wharf Street (Birtwistle & Oddie) - on the canal side, top
of Eanam.
Foundries & Haulage
Clayton and Goodfellow - bottom of Lower Audley Street and
Park Road.
Crook & Thompson - coal merchant - my Mum's Uncle George is digging behind the
wheelbarrow in this picture.
Foster, Yates & Thom - foundry - closed in 1973.
Kinder Brothers - haulage contractor - Canterbury Street.
Breweries
Duttons Salford Brewery (Thomas Dutton and his son, William
founded the company in Bow Street in 1799) - High Street.
Matthew Brown/Lion Brewery - the Nuttalls owned the Lion Brewery until the 1920's when
Matthew Brown bought it. Scottish &Newcastle bought the thriving Matthew
Brown Brewery in 1985 and closed it in 1991.
British Northop Loom Company - Philips Road, founded in 1902.
Rowland Baguley and Co. - shuttle manufacturers, Addison Street
My thanks to
Keith Ferguson, ex-Blackburnian in Melbourne, Australia and his Mom-
in-Law and Aunty for their additions.
My thanks to Mr N Jowitt for the information and picture of the annual mill day out between about 1950 and 1955 for Cotton Brothers Mill in Appleby St. who identifies his mother Jessie Jowitt (second row from the front, fourth from the left) and Annie Eagan immediately to her right who both lived in Ice Street Blackburn.
