Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

James Kilburn

From Graces Guide

of Meltham, near Huddersfield

  • Maker of stationary engines. [1]
  • 1872 Horizontal engine at the dye works of Tom Lees and Co., Honley. 20" bore, 3 ft stroke, approx 80 HP. Photographed by George Watkins in 1969[2]
  • Kilburn's was an old-established foundry in Meltham. A photograph of an old foundry at the junction of Slaithwaite Road and Mean Lane in a 'Flickr' online album noted that the foundry was demolished in March 2009.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
  2. 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000