Mellor & Jackson, Solicitors

There have been solicitors at 8 Church Lane for about 250 years. The partnership of Mellor & Jackson was created in the 1920's when Robert Oswald Mellor (who had previously worked at 7 Church Lane) and Albert Jackson (who had previously worked at 10 Church Lane) joined forces and moved into 8 Church Lane, taking over the old law firm of Clegg and Wild. For a time during and just after the Second World War, the practice was amalgamated with Armstrong, Whittaker and Ogden whose offices were in the old Williams & Glynn's Bank Chambers on Church Terrace.

The firm returned to being Mellor & Jackson in 1950 when George Cheetham bought the practice, entering into partnership with Joan Littlewood in 1953. Leslie Brook joined the firm in 1955. The Royton branch was opened as a full time office in 1963 although the firm had previously had a part time office (open two evenings a week) in Rochdale Road.