Elk Mill, on the Chadderton-Royton boundary, in Greater Manchester, England.
Built 1926 and driven by a Parsons steam turbine that drove the mill by ropes and the neighbouring Shiloh Mills by electricity. It used cotton mules until 1974. Scrapped in 1983. Closed in 1998. Demolished in 1999.
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