 Turners also built Tan Pits, a dye works, and the seven-storey, steam-powered Hollin Bank (or Middle Mill) which was built for power looms

The area expanded with the opening of the railway in 1848, and new buildings included the Station Hotel and St Thomas's Church (1851/2).One of the new mill owners who contributed to this expansion was William John Porritt (1820-1896), who was born in Ramsbottom.Porritt worked as a young man at Dearden Clough Mill as a hand-loom weaver and eventually became a cotton merchant.