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David Horsfall and Co

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of Hebden Bridge

Partners were Frederick Hirst and Fred Lumb

1871 Patent '951. And David Horsfall, of Lockwood, Huddersfield; in the county of York, Woollen Spinner, has given the like notice in respect of the invention of "improved machinery for preparing wool or other fibrous substances for feeding carding engines."'[1]

1876 David Horsfall and Co., Crosland Moor Iron Works, Huddersfield.[2]

1878 '...Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by John Horsfall, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, in the i county of Lancaster, Henry Horsfall, of Hebden Bridge, in the county of York, and Charles Frederic Horsfall, of Hebden Bridge aforesaid, carrying on business together in copartnership, at Calder Mill Shed and Hawksclough Shed, in Hebden Bridge aforesaid, as Cotton Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Horsfall Brothers, and of the said John Horsfall, Henry Horsfall, and Charles Frederic Horsfall, carrying on business as Cotton Spinners, at Hawksclough Mill, Hebden Bridge aforesaid, under the style or firm of John Horsfall and Sons, and of the said Henry Horsfall, carrying on business as a Cotton Spinner, at Waterside Mill, Hebden Bridge aforesaid, trading as William and Henry Horsfall, and of the said John Horsfall, carrying on business on his own account, at Lumb Mill, Hebden Bridge aforesaid, and at Square Mill, Walsden, in the county of Lancaster, and at No. 20, Cannon-street, in the city of Manchester, as a Cotton Spinner...'[3]

1879 '...Liquidation by Arrangement of the affairs of David Horsfall, of Crosland Moor, in Huddersfield, in the county of York Machinist, trading as David Horsfall and Co....'[4]

1914 Became the Waterside Clothing Co

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