Editing Irlam (section)

==Economy==
Steel manufacture was a major source of employment in Irlam for a large part of the 20th century. The Partington Steel and Iron Company opened the first steelworks in Irlam in 1910. It subsequently became a part of the [[Lancashire Steel Corporation]], and later [[British Steel Corporation]]. Rationalisation and the concentration of steel manufacture into fewer, larger sites, meant that by 1979, all steel production in Irlam had ceased.<ref>{{citation|title=Eyewitness in Manchester |publisher=Manchester Online |url=http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/newsletter/ewm324a.html |access-date=28 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092718/http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/newsletter/ewm324a.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref> The former steelworks are now the site of Northbank Industrial Estate.

Kingsland Wine & Spirits, the UK's largest independent wine bottler, operates from a {{convert|35|acre|adj=on}} site in Irlam, formerly a soapworks established in 1895. The company employs 300&nbsp;people.<ref>{{citation |title=From the New World to Irlam with Kingsland Wines |date=11 March 2010 |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/13487F1CAB3C3108&f=basic |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=28 February 2011 |via=NewsBank}}</ref>