INDIA Mill in Darwen has been described as one of the most important remaining buildings from the textile industry in the north west.

Built between 1859 and 1871 by cotton spinners Eccles Shorrock & Co, the building includes a 303ft-high Italian campanile chimney, which still dominates the skyline and is now itself a Grade II listed structure.

At its peak in the 1920s, the mill housed almost 100,000 mule and ring spindles and employed a significant workforce.

The mill began to move towards spinning artificial fibres in 1933, became part of the William Baird Textile Group in 1954, was purchased in 1985 by Carrington Viyella, and closed in 1991.

The mill is now a business centre and approaching its first decade under this new lease of life.

To mark the milestone, we are asking if you have any memories of the mill days, in stories and pictures.

Memories such as the day, back in 1970, when Moseley Mill opened in the India Mills centre, the first spinning mill to be opened in Lancashire for 45 years.

At the time India Mills had an annual turnover approaching £6million and a production capacity of almost 17million pounds of yarn a year.

Or do you remember when the old steam engine was built on the frontage as a symbol of the industrial revolution?

It came from Bowling Green Mill, in Darwen, where it had been installed in 1906 to drive 1,200 looms and eight tape machines.