[2] The mill closed in 1958,[3] and was sold to the hosiery manufacturer N. Corah (St. Margaret) Ltd.[4] Rochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England.

It was amalgamated into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847, and lines ran to Bury, Burnley, Oldham, Manchester and Leeds.

[7] The Rochdale Canal—one of the major navigable broad canals of the United Kingdom—was a highway of commerce during this time used for the haulage of cotton, wool, coal to and from the area.

[7] In 1882, Rochdale the home of industrial co-operatives, embraced the joint stock limited company and new mills were financed and built.

The canal granted jobs for hundreds of local residents, as it enabled the construction of several cotton mills.

With the mills came the need for engineering and from 1892, Castleton was the home of Tweedales and Smalley who manufactured looms and textile machinery.