Newfield Mill Lower Darwen 002

Charnleys Newfield Mill, Weaving shed built in 1850 by the side of Highcroft Brook, almost at the bottom of Stopes Brow. The mill started with 280 looms and about 100 workers. It was sold during the Cotton Famine.The new owner John Ingram hoping for better times increased the number of looms to 438. Good times never came, the firm became bakrupt in 1869 A new firm called Bradley took over but they could not get enough water to make steam power and they abandoned the building in 1879. it was demolished in 1892. rnMike Rothwell