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Latest revision as of 21:21, 8 August 2023
Frederick Whittaker Dixon (1854–1935) was an architect practising in Oldham, Lancashire.
He worked as a partner in Oldham company Potts, Pickup and Dixon (run by fellow Methodists) from 1880 to around 1889 when he set up his own practice.
In 1906 Dixon's son Ernest joined the practice and it became F. W. Dixon and Son. By that time Frederick Dixon had built 12 cotton mills in Oldham.
In his early mills Dixon used yellow brick to decorate the facades. His later mills used pronounced piers or buttresses between the windows, extending unbroken from the ground to the parapet. The water tower designs drew from a variety of architectural styles.
The Dixons designed 22 mills in Oldham containing 1.8 million spindles, making him responsible for about 30% of the capacity increase at that time.
List of mills designed by Frederick Whittaker Dixon
- Athens Mill, Oldham
- Glen Mill, Oldham
- Malta Mill, Middleton
- Ramsey Mill, Oldham
- Belgrave Mill, Oldham- No.3 Mill
- Gem Mill, Oldham
- Ivy Mill, Oldham
- Majestic Mill, Oldham
- Mona Mill, Oldham
- Tulketh Mill, Preston
- Monarch Mill, Oldham
- Werneth Mill, Oldham - No.2 Mill