Wigan cotton mill

Trencherfield Mill, looming near Wigan Pier, fired up in 1907 as a cotton-spinning giant, its red-brick bulk powered by a massive steam engine—the world’s largest still in situ. Built by the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, it churned thread through the town’s industrial peak, employing hundreds until the textile trade faded in the 1960s. Repurposed […]