Reply To: Vale Paper Mill (Horwich)

This mill was known as Cooke & Nuttall Ltd and the address was Vale Paper Mills, Star Lane, Horwich, Lancashire. The mill closed in December 1980 after several years of unprofitable trading. After many years the site was eventually redeveloped for housing with the entirely inappropriate name of Butterwick Fields.

The site and water supply were also shared with 2 cotton bleaching works – Star Bleaching and Jolly & Jackson which later formed part of the Bleachers Association.