It was the last mill in Ince to close, despite the intervention of Member of Parliament Michael McGuire, and a debate in the House of Commons on 20 March 1975.

[3] Ince or Ince-in Makerfield is a former township, and an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester.

[4] It lies on the southeastern bank of the River Douglas,[5] south east and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of Wigan's town centre.

[6] Ince and Wigan lie in a synclinal basin, where the middle coal measures of the Lancashire Coalfield outcrop allowing open cast workings.

Its problems were explained in the House of Commons on 20 March 1975 by the constituency's MP Michael McGuire, that other producing countries were applying tariffs against British cotton, and dumping their surplus in the UK.