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Pipeworks at Cheslyn Hay. At the time the site was being used as a depot for Hepworth West Midlands & Stoneware Ltd. In 1961 it is listed as Stella Tileries Ltd, (The Hepworth Group), Essington, near Wolverhampton. Vitrified Salt-glazed Pipes and Fittings, Glazed Conduits and Land Drain Pipes. Hepworths had bought the business in 1959. The works seems to have been established in 1935.

The Turton Moor Sanitary Pipe Co Ltd reopened the Turton Moor Colliery shafts in 1893 after they had been disused for fifteen years. A tramway was constructed to transport the coal and fireclay to a pipe works constructed on Charters Moss, near the main road. The company went into liquidation in November 1900 and the business was to be auctioned in February 1901. However, a group of shareholders purchased the business which changed to Darwen Sanitary Pipes Ltd. It struggled on until 1911 after which it was closed down and liquidated.