Union Foundry (Kidsgrove)
From Graces Guide
in Kidsgrove, North Staffordshire
This engineering works had a succession of owners:-
- Barker and Cope
- George Barker
- W. R. Renshaw and Co
- Renshaw, King and Co (until c.1890)
- King, Masterman, and Terry
- Henry Pooley and Son moved to Kidsgrove in 1896
Under Pooley & Son, the name of the works was changed to Albion Foundry.
'The youngest daughter of Mr. J. C. H. Robinson, late of Stevington, has recently been married to Mr. J. R. Chater, M.I.M.E., son of the chairman of the company bearing the style Henry Pooley and Son, Limited. Mr. Chater is manager of the Kidsgrove engineering works, hitherto known as the Union Foundry, for the manufacture of weighing machinery. In future, the works will bear the name of the Albion Foundry, the designation of Messrs. Pooley’s works in Liverpool and Glasgow.'[1].
Demolished 1940
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Bedfordshire Times and Independent, 24 October 1896