Maple No 1 Mill. Cardwell Street, Oldham

89,928 spindles. Built of red Accrington Nori bricks, the chimney with Stott’s signature two rings. The large metal framed windows set between narrow brick piers were in marked contast to the smaller segment headed windows that had been a feature on the nineteenth century mills. The use of steel beams allowed architects to space columns at wider centres so that the outer loadbearing brick walls became almost a series of pillars interspersed by broad bands of windows above brick panels