It was spinning artificial fibres in 1987, it closed in 1990[1] and was demolished in 1994; the site is now a housing estate.

The water needed to supply the steam engine at Wilshaw Mill came from a reservoir formed by damming the Smallshaw Brook.

The directors were Messrs Barlow, Marland, Coop, Newton, Pollitt and Pownall; they were later referred to as the Ashton syndicate.

The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry.

The roads bear the names Watermill Court and Cedar Mews which gives some indication of their antecedents but will mislead historians about contemporary attitudes.

Atlas Mill was used for spinning fine counts of twists and weft from Egyptian cotton.

This can be seen as admirable frugality or as a sign of the make do and mend and lack of investment that resulted in the closure of the Northern Spinning Division.