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 164,573 pages of information and 246,142 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.

John Pilling and Sons

From Graces Guide
1924.

John Pilling and Sons Ltd. of Trawden and of Primet Foundry, Colne, Lancashire.

John Pilling, born in 1776, established a workshop at his house in Trawden in 1819 to make fly-shuttle and dandy handlooms. By the end of 1849, John Pilling Jr. (b.1805) had moved the loom making business to a new three storey workshop at Primet Bridge, Colne.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. 'John Pilling & Sons - 200th Anniversary Lancashire Loom and Machine Makers' - Industrial Archaeology News No. 193, Summer 2020