Bleakhills Foundry
in Mansfield, Notts
Shown on the 1886 (1877-8 survey) O.S. map, to the west of Mansfield, on Sheepbridge Lane, 300 yds south of Drury's Dam.
1866 Partnership dissolved between Thomas Kirkland, William Hardwick, and George Hardwick, trading as the Bleakhills Foundry Co., so far as relates to Thomas Kirkland.[1]
At one time Edgar Pickard, later co-founder of Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Co was 'ironmaster and manager' of Bleakhills Foundry[2]