Stanhill Ring Spinning Mill, Tower Street, Oswaldtwistle

Built 1907 by the Stanhill Ring Spinning Co., a local public company promoted by A.S. Bury, John Barlow, William Moulding and others.72,000 Howard and Bullough ring spindles producing 16/62s American yarns in 1920. 500 operatives. The mill was powered by a 1860 hp high and low pressure horizontal cross compound engine, self condensing by Yates & Thom, 48 rope drive, and four Lancashire boilers by the same maker. By the 1930's 87,000 ring spindles were operating at the mill. Following the Second World war, the mill was taken over by English Sewing Cotton Limited, a company which subsequently became English Calico and finally part of the Tootal Group. The factory was extensively re-equipped in the mid-1950's. Closure was announced during early 1980 and the mill ceased production in June 1980.