Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Co
From Graces Guide
of Holywell, North Wales
- 1872 Company established.
- 1893 'The Local Government Board Enquiry into the application of the Rural Sanitary Authority of the Holywell Union, for authority to take proceedings against the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company, and the St. Winefred's Brewery Company, under part 3 of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, for polluting the stream from St. Winifred's Well. .... The firm of Messrs. Newton, Keates and Co., the owners the Battery-row, Meadow, and Abbey Mill Pools. were represented by Mr. Thos. Hughes, manager, Mr. Dixon, general secretary of the firm, and Mr. Edmund L. Keates, barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple. .... The Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company had two mills, the Upper and Lower Mills. ....' [1]. The report described the proceedings at length.
- 1914 Manufacturers of real Welsh flannel and tweeds, real Welsh and fancy flannel shirtings, colonial shirtings and flannels. Employees 300. [2]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Flintshire Observer - Thursday 12 October 1893
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book