It ceased spinning cotton in the 1960s and was used as a warehouse until it was destroyed by fire in 1970[1] Tudor mill was built on the site of the former Portland House and the Stamford brewery, next to the Portland Basin on the final section of the Ashton Canal, where it joined the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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 air pump was driven from the low-pressure crosshead, there was a Saxon governor on the high-pressure end of the bed.

[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.