Gordon Mills, St Patrick's Street, Stafford
Louis Sandy's three-storey 'Gordon Mills' textile distribution warehouse at 8, St. Patrick's Street., Stafford. Note the sign on the front edge of the roof.
It is thought that the building may date ...
Half Hose Knitting Department, Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mills, Leek
Hamel's Mill, Bolebridge Street, Tamworth
Lime washing at Hamel's Mill. Mr Arthur Bevan Taylor is on the left. Hamel's Mill was a tape weaving mill founded by the son of a French refugee, Etienne Bruno, who became Mayor of Tamworth twice. The ...
Hand Knitting at Moorland Handicraft Ltd., Moorland Mill, Leek
By 2003 this building had become a timber merchant's yard and warehouse.
Highfield Hall, Leek
Highfield Hall, originally called Highfield House, was built in the 1810s by Richard Badnall, a Leek silk dyer, on land bought in 1801 by his father Joseph Badnall. It was bought by silk manufacturer ...
Hope Silk Mill, Macclesfield Road, Leek
Machinery being delivered or removed through the roof of the extension to Hope Mill, Macclesfield Road, Leek after Job Whites' take-over in 1959. Hope Silk Mill had been Davenport Adams' Mill and was ...
Hope Silk Mill, Macclesfield Road, Leek
Hope Silk Mill on Macclesfield Road, Leek. It had been Davenport Adams' Mill and was extended in 1928-1929 in an Art deco style but was then sold to Job White's in 1959.
James Alsop, silk manufacturer, Leek
James Alsop was born 29 March 1806 in Newton Abbott, in Devon. By the 1841 census he was living in Leek with his occupation listed as ‘Silk Manufacturer’. He went into partnership with James Gaunt Robins, ...
James Callaghan at Enderley Mills, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Prime Minister James Callaghan on a visit to Enderley Mills.
Enderley Mills were founded in 1881 by Richard Stanway and specialised in the manufacture of uniforms. At the time of Stanway's ownership ...
Job White's Mill, Compton, Leek
Photograph shows Job White's Mill on Compton, Leek. The section shown was designed by William Sugden and Son of Leek, Architects. A huge fire in the 1960s destroyed the majority of the mill, together ...
Joshua Brough. Silk Manufacturer, Leek
Photograph of Joshua Brough, about 1867.
Joshua Brough, pictured here, was one of the three sons of John Brough, who was one of Leek’s earliest large silk manufacturers. Towards the end of the 19th ...
Jubilee Day Celebrations, Cattle Market, Leek
A large group of children sing hymns in the Cattle Market to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. On the same day the Pickwood Recreation Ground was opened and 5000 schoolchildren were 'entertained ...
Leek Manufacturers Association
Locomotive, Lancashire
Albert Meakin of Rownall, near Wetley Rocks standing by a locomotive with plate 'Joseph Hardman Ltd'. Albert died, aged 35 in 1934. Joseph Hardman & Sons Ltd were silk spinners and doublers in Oldham, ...
London Mill, Ashbourne Road, Leek
The silk mill was built in 1853 on the corner of Ashbourne Road (formerly London Road) and Well Street. It was bought by the firm later known as Brough, Nicholson and Hall in 1863, who moved from a smaller ...
London Mill, Leek
London Mill silk mill was built in 1853 on the corner of Ashbourne Road (formerly London Road) and Well Street. It was bought by the firm later known as Brough, Nicholson and Hall in 1863, who moved from ...
Loom, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Looms set up at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the premises for ...
Looms, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Looms set up at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the premises for ...