Taylor Weaving Shed, Ormskirk Road, Skelmersdale near Ormskirk

THE MERDALE MILL COMPANY LIMITED, SKELMERSDALE (Incorporated under Companies Acts 1862 to 1900) Capital £10000 Divided into 10000 Shares of £1. This Company has formed for the purpose acquiring a Freehold Plot of Land situate near Ormskirk Road Skelmersdale which has been offered for sale by Mr Richard Mercer of Pansy Villa, Ormskirk Road, Skelmersdale at price of £600 It is proposed to erect on the land soon to be acquired a modern and well-equipped Weaving Shed to contain about Four Hundred Looms The land is an excellent site for the erection of a Weaving Shed, being situate in the centre of a coal district and in close proximity to Skelmersdale Railway Station The Shed will be laid out for the Weaving of Plain Cloths etc. and the Directors feel confident that having regard to the fact that during the recent boom in mill building attention has been directed principally to spinning mills there is excellent opening for a modern Weaving Shed. [Ormskirk Advertiser Thursday 11 January 1906 page 1]

SKELMERSDALE'S NEW MILL. CUTTING THE FIRST SOD - The ceremony of cutting the first sod in connection with the proposed weaving shed for Skelmersdale was performed on Saturday by Mrs. Hulley, wife of the vicar (the Rev. J. J. Hulley), in the presence of a large crowd, numbering about six hundred persons. The capital necessary for the start is already subscribed, and the work, which will be of the most up-to-date kind, will be carried out from designs prepared by Messrs. J. B. and W. Thornley, architects, of Wigan and Darwen.

By Order of the Liquidator MERDALE MILL COMPANY LIMITED, SKELMERSDS NEAR ORMSKIRK - To be sold as a going concern. Messrs Green and Trickett will offer for sale by auction at the Mitre Hotel, Manchester on 11 November 1910 at 3.30pm - All that valuable plot of land containing 19,122 square yards or thereabouts together with the WEAVING SHED, having space for 400 looms, Motive Power,  Water Privileges, Millwright's Work Pump; Steam, Water and Gas piping and fittings.; Fixed and loose machinery for Sizing, Winding. Warping, and Making-up; Furnishings, Utensils, Office furniture and Effects; Stock, Stores etc carried out under the style or firm of The Merdale Mill Company Limited, Taylor Shed, Skelmersdale, near Ormskirk, including receivable rents from Kitchen Garden. [Wigan Examiner - Saturday 29 October 1910 page 4]

Subsequently known as Merdale Mill, later Orm Mill, Skelmersdale.

Reference    Ormskirk Advertiser Thursday 11 January 1906 page 1 - prospectus
Reference    Southport Guardian - Wednesday 7 March 1906 page 12 cutting first sod
Reference    Wigan Examiner - Saturday 29 October 1910 page 4 – sale by auction