Dee Mill Limited, Cotton Spinners, Shaw, Lancashire : advert issued c1930
What a fine advert this is, issued by the Dee Mill Company, a form of cotton spinners based in Shaw, the small Lancashire town associated with High Crompton that sits between Oldham and Rochdale and that formed part of the vast number of textile processing companies that were situated in south Lancashire. The Dee Mill has been constructed in 1907 and survived, latterly as part of Courtauld's empire, until the 1970s.
The mill is infamous due to the sad loss of the mill's steam engine that was counted as one of the finest of its type and that had been run as 'preserved' on occasion following the late shift to electricity at this mill. The engine and engine house was even scheduled as an 'ancient monument' but this did not save it as it was allowed to deteriorate and become vandalised after the demolition of the main mill building in c1984. Eventually even the engine house and equipment was cleared in the 1990s.
The company, as seen here, specialised in superfine yarns in both American and Egyptian cottons, the latter possibly accounting for the hieroglyphs on the advert frame. The vignettes show the cotton plant and boll as well as a cop, a cone and a hank of the finished yarns.
Dee Mill Limited, Cotton Spinners, Shaw, Lancashire : advert issued c1930
What a fine advert this is, issued by the Dee Mill Company, a form of cotton spinners based in Shaw, the small Lancashire town associated with High Crompton that sits between Oldham and Rochdale and that formed part of the vast number of textile processing companies that were situated in south Lancashire. The Dee Mill has been constructed in 1907 and survived, latterly as part of Courtauld's empire, until the 1970s.
The mill is infamous due to the sad loss of the mill's steam engine that was counted as one of the finest of its type and that had been run as 'preserved' on occasion following the late shift to electricity at this mill. The engine and engine house was even scheduled as an 'ancient monument' but this did not save it as it was allowed to deteriorate and become vandalised after the demolition of the main mill building in c1984. Eventually even the engine house and equipment was cleared in the 1990s.
The company, as seen here, specialised in superfine yarns in both American and Egyptian cottons, the latter possibly accounting for the hieroglyphs on the advert frame. The vignettes show the cotton plant and boll as well as a cop, a cone and a hank of the finished yarns.