Worsley Mill
- Egerton Street The
Worsley Mill sits on the corner of Egerton and
Worsley Streets beside the Bridgewater Canal.
 Today
it has been converted into apartments and a modern
extension has been added to the restored mill.
 A website advertising the accommodation says the Worsley Mill is, "large, well-preserved and very distinctive. The roof comprises a number of gabled ridges of different sizes and features a prominent campanile style chimney and sprinkler tower.  A canal basin enters a large shipping hole on the north side. Loading/unloading facilities for canal boats are still intact.  Internally
the building has timber floors supported by steel
beams and cast-iron columns.
 It appears that the mill
was built in 1894 to a design by the northern architect
William Waddington. In 1896 it was called the
Canal Flour Mill and was operated by William Sutcliffe
& Sons. In the 1920s the Joseph Rank Company
bought a number of flour mills around the country,
including the William Sutcliffe mill in Manchester in
1923. However, the mill must have continued to
operate under the Sutcliffe name because the Kelly
Directory for Manchester & Salford lists them on the
Egerton - Worsley Street corner in 1927.
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