Signal Mill, Mill Lane, Orrell

The Signal Spinning Company Limited of Orrell, are erecting a new spinning mill close to their Sandbrook Mill, which was itself enlarged a year or two ago. It is expected that it will be completed by February or March next year. The building, which is estimated to cost £30,000 will be devoted to ring spinning and will contain some 20,000 spindles when at work, while employment will be found for between 150 and 200 hands. The architects are Messrs Unwin and Holland of Wigan, Messrs Massey Brothers of Pemberton being the contractors [Wigan Observer and District Advertiser Saturday 39 August 1913]

Signal Mill was later converted into the Thames Waste Paper Mill and there are reports of several fires in the 1960s and 1970s. It was eventually demolished around 1987 when the houses at Sandbrook Gardens were built. Signal Mill stood at the end of Mill Lane on a site immediately to the east of the Sandbrook Mill, erected in 1862 and extended about 1911. Sandbrook Mill had been demolished by 1939 

Reference    Wigan Observer and District Advertiser Saturday 39 August 1913