Standard Mill

Standard Mill opened circa 1900.

It was a cotton spinning and doubling Mill - doubling being “a process where two or more single threads are compounded and twisted together”.

The Mill closed 1980, amidst angry protests of lost jobs, and was demolished in 1983.

Points of interest

1915 – A fire damaged the spinning and card rooms, which destroyed five mules (see A Spinners Vocabulary) in the early hours of a Saturday morning, but the Mill was up-and-running again as usual the following Monday morning.

World War II – yarn produced at Standard Mill was treated with plastic and formed the bearings for Spitfire propellers. The Mill also produced yarn which was used in the manufacture of bullet proof petrol cans dropped at Arnhem.

1947 - Standard Mill installed an oil burning plant, for raising steam to overcome the coal shortage.