Peel, Ainsworth and Co
1794 Listed as 'Peel, Ainsworth and Co, merchants and manufacturers, 10 Peel Street, Manchester [1]
1797 Listed as 'Peels, Ainsworth and Co, merchants and manufacturers, 10 Peel Street, Manchester [2]
1799 Advertisement: 'To be Sold, by private Contract, The large COTTON TWIST MILL, situated at the Mill Hill, in Little Bolton, within half a mile of Bolton, lately erected by Peels, Ainsworth and Co. being a new and well built brick building, four stories high, 72 feet long by 30 feet wide within walls, with a large water wheel, 18 feet high, and 6½ feet wide, with full 17 feet fall, on a good stream, and equal to fourteen horses power, with all the upright shafts, geers, &c. &c. complete, with culverts, fenders, troughs, &c. &c. all in excellent repair, together with eight drums, containing 1344 spindles, six mules, of 24 spindles each, with carding, drawing, roving, &c. all on the newest and most approved construction; joiners' benches, complete together with a good house for the manager and four new Well built cottages
Likewise a new and convenient Building, 47 feet long by 18 feet wide, adjoining the Mill, now used as a Calender-house, in which there are lay-shafts and spur geers to two large calenders, with proper bowls in good repair, and stoves complete. The whole held by a lease under John Gartside, Esq. for 99 years, eight of which only are expired, and subject to the yearly rent of 94l.10s.
For particulars enquire of Mr. T. Ainsworth, Bolton, who will shew the premises, or at the warehouse of Messrs. Peel, Yateses. Halliwell and co. Manchester.'[3]