Hiton and Brown
of Emblem Street, Great Bolton. Foundry
of Derby Iron Works, Derby-street, Bolton
formerly Brown, Altham and Co
1860s Was a small foundry, employing twelve men and eight boys.
1870 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Hiton and John Brown, as Ironfounders, Agricultural Implement and Kitchen Range Manufacturers, at the Derby Iron Winks, Derby-street, Bolton in the county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of Hi ion and Brown, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts owing to or by the said firm will be received arid paid by the said John Brown, by whom alone the said business will in future be carried on...'[1]
1879 Taken over and renamed W. Crumblehulme and Sons