JOHN RYLANDS
Swinton Mill
[Fig. 41]
Swinton Mills (later Dacca Twist Company). Photograph taken by N. S. Robert in 1925.
Copyright of the Manchester Library.
Swinton Mills were located on Worsley Road and built in 1843[1]. According to D. A. Farnie, the mills were "one of the earliest spinning mills in Swinton and Pendlebury"[2]. John Rylands purchased the mills in 1874 from John Bowers with its content of “26 cottages, beerhouse and a shop”[3]. Later, the mill was given a new name of Dacca Twist Mill. Swinton Mills offered bleaching, dyeing services. Regatta shirting, oxfords, harvards, flannelettes, dyed drills, jeans, satteens and other woven fabrics were made in Swinton Mills[4].
In 1938, Swinton Mills suffered a fire[5], which damaged the building itself as well as warehouse goods and equipment, later the mill was destroyed in 1983[6]. It appears that the mill was very important as the area is now identified as Daccamills drive of Worsley Road.
[Fig. 42]
Courtesy of The Manchester Guardian on Swinton Mills fire in 1938.
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[Map 15]
Swinton Mills in 1907.
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Swinton Mills location on Worsley Road, Swinton. 1956.
[Map 17]
Google maps. Daccamill drive of Worsley Road.
[1]Farnie, D. A., John Rylands of Manchester (Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1993), Figure 7.
[2]Farnie, D. A., John Rylands of Manchester (Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1993).
[3]Farnie, D. A., John Rylands of Manchester (Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1993).
[4]John Rylands Library, Special Collections, RYL/1/3/5, The British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, 1924.
[5]‘Swinton Mill Fire: 350 Workers Thrown Idle’, The Manchester Guardian, 18 November 1938, p. 13.
[6]Farnie, D. A., John Rylands of Manchester (Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1993), Figure 7.