alive, so what's done is only done by hand. There's not a man left at the work, but one Mr Rodgers an old man that came down from London when he could stay no longer, and he I find can't get money to live upon and almost starved...." Wyatt tried to gain orders for yarn from the mill when he was released in October 1743 but there is no record of the mill beyond this point, though it may have been the machinery from the Upper Priory that Wyatt sent to Northampton in 1757. A key weak point of Paul and Wyatt's machinery was its frailty, which saw it frequently out of order and in need of expensive repairs. It has also been suggested that the inability of Paul or Wyatt to organise a manufacturing operation with the necessary level of discipline and supervision may have been a key reason for the mill's failure. Andrew Ure wrote that Wyatt was "favourably placed, in a mechanical point of view, for maturing his admirable scheme. But he was a gentle and passive spirit, little qualified to cope with the hardships of a new manufacturing enterprise. It required, in fact, a man of a Napoleon nerve and ambition, to subdue the refractory tempers of work-people accustomed to irregular paroxysms of diligence." Matthew Boulton, whose own Soho Manufactory successfully organised industrial production on an unprecedented scale from the 1760s onwards, was later to recall the Paul-Wyatt mill as "a good Cotton spinning mill" that "would have got money had it been in good hands". Despite the commercial failure of Paul and Wyatt's own factory, further mills were established using their machinery in Northampton and Leominster, and a second mill established in Birmingham, which remained in operation at least until the mid-1750s. See also Marvel's Mill – opened in Northampton in 1742 and operating for over 15 years; the second cotton mill to use the Paul-Wyatt machinery Pinsley Mill – another mill using the Paul-Wyatt machinery, opened by Daniel Bourn in Leominster some time between 1744 and 1748 Cromford Mill – opened by Richard Arkwright in Derbyshire in 1771, which used machinery very similar to that of Paul and Wyatt and was the first cotton mill to be highly profitable References Bibliography Cotton mills Cotton industry in England Textile mills in Birmingham, West Midlands Former textile mills in the United Kingdom History of Birmingham, West