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The Greater Manchester town where the mills, mines and slag heaps of the past have a bright future
09.07.2023 - 07:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
They are the symbols of a town moving from an industrial past to a vibrant new future.
Across Wigan, the mills, mines and slag heaps of the past are being reinvented as places to live, work and play. The recent approval for the redevelopment of Eckersley Mill in Wigan is the latest example of how the town is changing.
News that Mill 3 at the Eckersley Mill site will be turned into one, two and three-bed flats comes months after Mill 1 was green lit to be transformed into Wigan’s equivalent of a Manchester Mackie Mayor style food hall.
These huge buildings played a huge role in the region’s industrial past.
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Towns like Wigan, Leigh, Atherton and Ashton-in-Makerfield all take pride in their strong mining history.
However, cotton spinning mills provided thousands with work from Victorian times through to the Second World War. At Eckersley Mill alone, at its height of production in the mid-1920’s, mills 1,2 and 3 contained some 253,000 spindles and 1,687 looms and employed more than 3,000 workers, forming one of the largest integrated textile production sites in the country.
It is thought that during the 19th century, about 80 per cent of cotton spinning in the world took place within 25 miles of Manchester, in what was dubbed as Cottonopolis. The industry wound down in the 1980's, owing to low-cost competition from India and China.
In the last few years there has been a boom in how the mills are being reimagined in Wigan as developers and the council have less space to work with as the population grows. Another shining example of how relics from Wigan’s industrial past have ben reinvented for public use lies in the old coal
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