James Duckworth and Co
of Manchester
1828 Listed as cotton spinners, New Market Buildings and Temple Street, Chorlton Row [1]
Bancks's 1831 map shows Duckworth's Cotton Mill at the end of Temple Street, close to a bend in the River Medlock.
Green's map of 1787-94 shows that the location was still countryside at that time. The mill site was on land lowered slightly from the surroundings by the action of River Medlock.
The 1849 60-inch O.S. map shows 'Temple Street Mill' at the same location. Not quite the same shape, but possibly some of Duckworth's buildings survived. The M&SJR viaduct and Altrincham Street had been inserted at the north end of the mill.
1849 'FIRE THIS MORNING IN A COTTON MILL. About twenty minutes past one o'clock this (Wednesday) morning, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the cotton mill of Mr. Charles Pooley, Temple-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. The alarm was brought to the Town's Yard, in Clarence-street, by a policeman in a cab, when Mr. Rose was quickly on the spot with four engines and a body of the fire-brigade. When first discovered, the flames were seen bursting out of the end window of the third story, at that end of the mill which abuts on the South Junction Railway, and they were confined to the blowing rooms, which is situated immediately over the engine house, .....' [2]. Presumably Charles Pooley had taken over the mill from James Duckworth & Co.