It was constructed as a cotton-spinning mill in 1907. Frederick Whittaker Dixon designed it for the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Company Ltd. It was extended in 1920 and 1924. It was Grade II-listed on 8 March 1993. [1] In 1991, Littlewoods vacated the building, and it has been unoccupied since then. A fire significantly damaged it in 2014,[2] and a teenager died after falling through the roof of the building in 2015.[3] It was proposed for demolition in 2018. Demolition of the mill was due to be completed in August 2020 but was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] Demolition restarted in July 2021 and the last remaining structure, the mill chimney, was demolished on 1 October 2023.[5]
