The Greater Manchester town where the mills, mines and slag heaps of the past have a bright future
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThey are the symbols of a town moving from an industrial past to a vibrant new future. Across Wigan, the mills, mines and slag heaps of the past are being reinvented as places to live, work and play.
The recent approval for the redevelopment of Eckersley Mill in Wigan is the latest example of how the town is changing. News that Mill 3 at the Eckersley Mill site will be turned into one, two and three-bed flats comes months after Mill 1 was green lit to be transformed into Wigan’s equivalent of a Manchester Mackie Mayor style food hall.
These huge buildings played a huge role in the region’s industrial past. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features Towns like Wigan, Leigh, Atherton and Ashton-in-Makerfield all take pride in their strong mining history.
However, cotton spinning mills provided thousands with work from Victorian times through to the Second World War. At Eckersley Mill alone, at its height of production in the mid-1920’s, mills 1,2 and 3 contained some 253,000 spindles and 1,687 looms and employed more than 3,000 workers, forming one of the largest integrated textile production sites in the country.
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