Birtwistle and Thompson
of Woodfold Mill, Darwen, Stanley Street Mill, Blackburn and Nova Scotia Mill, Blackburn.
1891 Directory (Blackburn): Listed as Cotton spinners and manufacturers. More details
1891 Directory (Darwen): Birtwistle and Thompson, Woodfold Mill, Darwen; and Stanley Street Mill, Blackburn and Nova Scotia Mill, Blackburn; 532 looms, jacconettes and dhooties, plain and figured.[1]
1895 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership formerly subsisting between us the undersigned William Birtwistle and Richard Thompson in the business of Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers carried on by us at Stanley-street and Nova Scotia Mills in the county borough of Blackburn and at Woodfold Mill, Darwen both in the county of Lancaster under the style or firm of Birtwistle and Thompson was dissolved by mutual consent...'[2]