The water needed to supply the steam engine 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 steam engine was a 1250 hp triple expansion four cylinder by George Saxon & Co, of Openshaw built in 1892.

[3] The preparation machinery was provided by Brookes and Doxey, and the mule frames by Hetherington and Sons Ltd.

There were 85,464 mule spindles spinning fine counts of twists and weft from Egyptian cotton.

[4] Rock Mill was used for spinning finer counts of Egyptian cotton, for twists.