Cotton Town - Blackburn with Darwen
 

Eccles, Joseph


The grave of Joseph Eccles.  It is a cross on a square pillar at the head of a slab set in holly.  He died on the 3rd May 1861.  He was a Cotton Spinner, and, with his brother Bannister erected the Jubilee Factory in 1820.  He purchased the Mill Hill estate in 1844 and left under £45,000 in his will.


Joseph Eccles Spot

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