John Dugdale and Sons
From Graces Guide
Engineers, machinists and iron and brass founders.
Successors to J. Harrison and Sons of Soho Foundry, Blackburn.
1876 Higher Audley Street Mill, Blackburn.[1]
1896 The Blackburn Loom and Weaving Machinery Making Co was registered on 13 July, to take over the businesses carried on under the titles of William Dickinson and Sons, Willan and Mills and John Dugdale and Sons. [2]
1912 Change of ownership. 'Paradise and Higher Audley-street Mills owned and run for so many years by John Dugdale and Sons have changed hands and will in future be run by the late manager of the firm, Mr. J. A. Omerod, J.P., and Mr. John Yates, of Darwen. There are 40,000 spindles and 1,700 looms in the two mills.'[3]
Became Audley Spinning and Manufacturing Co
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