Crumblehulme and Edge
of Town Green Ironworks, Chorley
1874 William Crumblehulme set up in business for himself. His three eldest sons were now in a position to help him - John a blacksmith, James a joiner, and Alfred, a foundry worker. In 1874 he bought Towns Green Foundry, St Thomas Road, from Henry Banks for £800, and by 1875 Crumblehulme and Edge was in business.
1879 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Crumblehulme and James Edge, as Ironfounders, at the Town Green Ironworks, Chorley, in the county of Lancaster, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[1]