Wallsuches was selected as the new site due to the availability of land and streams to provide water power to run the bleach works and cotton mill.

[1] The main road through Horwich to Bolton had been improved, which was good for business access and employees.

Wallsuches was highly successful, and by 1780 the former shippon and hut had been converted into a bleach works powered by six water wheels.

Thomas Ridgmont sponsored French chemists Matthew Vallet and Anthony Bourboulon de Boneuil who pioneered the development of chemical bleaching, using chlorine and Wallsuches became one of the first to use the technology.

The area has since been developed for housing by Redrow, incorporating the Grade II listed buildings.