Bought by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation before 1951, it was brought back into production baling waste for export.

A heavy rail line enters Middleton from Moston and Chadderton to the south, and passes roughly parallel to the canal as they both continue through Castleton northwards to Rochdale.

The M&LR main line opened on 4 July 1839, and the branch from Middleton Junction to Oldham Werneth railway station on 31 March 1842.

It was in the second half of the 19th century, that the area became the world centre for spinning cotton yarn.

[6][7] By 1871 Oldham had more spindles than any country in the world except the United States, and in 1909, was spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined.

On 10 July 1927, after heavy rain, the Rochdale Canal aqueduct breached and emptied its contents into the River Irk, which broke its banks and surged through Middleton causing loss of life.

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

[10] By May 1936, relationships between Messrs Murgatroyd and the Operative Cotton Spinners Association had broken down.

It was raised in the House of Commons where it was deemed inappropriate that the provisions of the Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 should be used to circumvent the efforts of the trade union to secure proper conditions for their members.

From an external engine house placed between it and Bay Tree mill possibly to power both.