County End Mill,. Oldham Road, Lees

TO BUILDERS - Persons desirous of Tendering for the RE-ERECTION of COUNTY END MILLS may inspect the drawings and obtain bills of quantities at the offices of the Architect on and after Saturday the 12th instant. Tenders to be delivered on or before the 19th instant. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. EDWARD POTTS, Architect, Oldham. June 1873. [Oldham Chronicle - Saturday 5 July 1873 page 1]

First mill established on this site in 1781. Mill buildings partially destroyed by fire on 22 May 1872 and rebuilt by the County End Mill Co Ltd. Production ceased in 1920 when it became a wallpaper manufacturer. About 1940 it was again altered to an engineering works.