Shout to @tweek for pushing this one after visiting some time ago with @jST and having to subdue a disgruntled owner with a segment of orange, much like a racoon or a wild bird.
This is Quarmbys Dyeworks, showing John Roberts on horseback, Sam Sugden midway and Joseph Quarmby.
An 'Honourable Mention' in the 1905 text 'Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present' by John Sugden tentatively discusses which individuals may have done the most to build up the better Slaithwaite, and alter the whole aspect of the Colne Valley.
Sugden states that 'The good work taken over from the Meals at the dyehouse by Mr. Joseph Quarmby and Mr. Samuel Sugden, under the name of Messrs. Meal and Quarmby, proved a great success, beginning in a very small way with donkey loads to Meltham Mills and ending with two wagons a day; built the present new dyehouse, and did much as one of the most successful firms in this line of business in the district to help to build up Slaithwaite. The same dyeworks are now most successfully carried on by Messrs. William Brook and Sons, two young men who are keeping up the reputation of the place, providing a large employment here and at Honley, and doing something to advance the commercial value of the town and district'.
Brook Dyeing Co. was founded in 1875, later becoming the Huddersfield Dyeing Co. and amalgamating with near neighbour James Dyson Ltd. (https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/james-dyson-ltd-linthwaite-2012-14.103488/) in 2008.
The Huddersfield Dyeing Co. continue to operate however, Britannia Mills has remained derelict for more than a decade. Parts of the mill currently house a number of small businesses and flats.
This is Quarmbys Dyeworks, showing John Roberts on horseback, Sam Sugden midway and Joseph Quarmby.
An 'Honourable Mention' in the 1905 text 'Slaithwaite Notes: Past and Present' by John Sugden tentatively discusses which individuals may have done the most to build up the better Slaithwaite, and alter the whole aspect of the Colne Valley.
Sugden states that 'The good work taken over from the Meals at the dyehouse by Mr. Joseph Quarmby and Mr. Samuel Sugden, under the name of Messrs. Meal and Quarmby, proved a great success, beginning in a very small way with donkey loads to Meltham Mills and ending with two wagons a day; built the present new dyehouse, and did much as one of the most successful firms in this line of business in the district to help to build up Slaithwaite. The same dyeworks are now most successfully carried on by Messrs. William Brook and Sons, two young men who are keeping up the reputation of the place, providing a large employment here and at Honley, and doing something to advance the commercial value of the town and district'.
Brook Dyeing Co. was founded in 1875, later becoming the Huddersfield Dyeing Co. and amalgamating with near neighbour James Dyson Ltd. (https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/james-dyson-ltd-linthwaite-2012-14.103488/) in 2008.
The Huddersfield Dyeing Co. continue to operate however, Britannia Mills has remained derelict for more than a decade. Parts of the mill currently house a number of small businesses and flats.
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