Eye in the sky: latest aerial pictures of Wigan's Cotton Works project

Mill One – which by spring next year will be home to bars, a food hall, roof-top restaurant and dozens of businesses – has been enjoying a big reveal in recent weeks as scaffolding is peeled away after the brickwork has been refurbished and new windows installed.

Later phases of the multi-million-pound transformation of the old and abandoned Eckersley Mills will include scores of apartments in Mill Three, a new home for the roller rink, plus shops and a hotel.