Cleckheaton mills

Albion Works, Cleckheaton
1854 - Isaac Thornton, Machine maker
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Isaac Thornton, machinist & Millwright, maker of piecing machines, billies, horses, mules & condensing & grinding machines at Albion Machine Works.
1889 - Birkett & Robinson, Brass finishers
1967 - Vaughn-Crossley Ltd.
1974 - G. Crawford, Cleckheaton, Ltd.
George Crossley, Engineer & Millwright

Balm Mill, Cleckheaton
Corn mill dating back to the early 1800s, if not earlier
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Thomas Briggs, corn miller & farmer at Balm Mill.

Balmforth & Tansley, ironfounders, Cleckheaton
1861 - Census entry for Joseph Tansley shows him a master ironfounder employing 8 men & 4 boys
1862 - Partnership dissolved of Balmforth & Tansley, ironfounders, Cleckheaton.
2 Feb 1869 - auction at the Royal Hotel, Cleckheaton: Valuable freehold mill and foundry and other buildings adjoining known by the name of the Providence Foundry, lately occupied by Mr. Joseph Tansley, together with the plot of land thereto belonging and adjoining with steam engine, cupola weighing machine, cranes, boiler, shafting and other fixed machinery and containing an area of 776 square yards. The property is well supplied with water and is immediately adjoining the Cleckheaton railway station.

Arthur Barstow Ltd., Westgate, Cleckheaton - Leather merchants
1922 - Death of Arthur Barstow
1943 - Death of John Lockwood Turner Hirst, director of Arthur Barstow Ltd.

Britannia Mills, Cleckheaton
1879 - Petition for liquidation filed by John Rhodes and Joseph Rhodes of Cleckheaton, carrying on business in co-partnership as flock manufacturers at Britannia Mill, under the style of Rhodes Brothers. Liabilities £1,300.
1905 - A new company formed taking in the establishments of Messrs. James Critchley & Son, New Mills, Batley Carr; Messrs William Sharp & Son, Albert Mills, Scholes and Messrs L.M. Tetlow & Sons, Britannia Mills, Cleckheaton.
1919 - Frank Firth & Co. Ltd., Machine makers

Brook Mills, Cleckheaton
Richard Sarly Brook?
1868 - Gomersal, Moor & Co. (expiration of the lease)
1877 - Auction of Brook Mill now occupied by the New Mill Company and John Blakelock & Sons.
8 Apr 1881 - Petition for liquidation filed by Edward Blamires of Syke Fold, Liversedge, blanket and flannel manufacturer, and also carrying on business in partnership with Henry Heaton at Brook Mills, Cleckheaton as woollen spinners and scribblers. Liabilities of £1,725.
1893 - W. Blackburn & Co. Ltd registered with a capital of £63,000 in £10 shares, to take over as a going concern the business of worsted yarn spinner and worsted yarn manufacturer carried on by W. Blackburn at Clarence Mills and Brook Mills, Cleckheaton, and to carry on the business of worsted, cotton and silk spinners and doublers, combers, weavers, dyers, finishers, bleachers, cleaners, etc. The signatories are, with one share each: William Blackburn, Spencer Blackburn, Stanley Blackburn, Mrs A.W. Blackburn, Jonathan Gomersall, William Brooke and Henry Pearson. The first directors are William Blackburn, Spencer Blackburn and Stanley Blackburn.
1907 - Large fire at T.B. Haigh, band spinners. Premises are owned by George Whiteley of Scholes and have 3 storeys.
1907 - Harding & Harding, machine makers occupy ground floor.

Brookhouse Mill, Cleckheaton
1861 - E & H Darnley. Silk dressers (Edward & Henry)
1868 - Roberts, Armitage & Stead. Wire block manufacturers and general millwrights.
23 Dec 1869 - Partnership between Luke Roberts, Ephraim Armitage and William Stead carrying on business as engineers, millwrights and machine makers under the style of Roberts, Armitage Stead has been dissolved by mutual consent as far as regards William Stead. The business will be carried on under the style of Roberts & Armitage.
1871 - Census entry for Luke Roberts shows him of the firm Roberts & Armitage, Founders & Millwrights employing 16 men and 19 boys.
1878 - Failure of Brook & Ingham, felt manufacturers.
1879 - Roberts & Armitage, ironfounders and engineers. Bankruptcy filed by Luke Roberts, Edwin Roberts & Ephraim Armitage.
1879 - Proceedings for liquidation instituted by Godfrey Roberts, William Roberts, Samuel Roberts, John Henry Roberts and Benjamin Robinson, all of Cleckheaton carrying on business as cardmakers in co-partnership at Brookhouse Mills, under the style of Godfrey Roberts & Sons..
1890 . Fire in the roof of the premises occupied by Messrs. Holdsworth, Parkinson & Co., wire manufacturers
25 May 1891 - A young man named Harry Haley, employed as a wire drawer at Messrs. Holdsworth, Parkinson & Co., had his leg broken when clothing became entangled in machinery.
1894 - D. C. Bateman, wire drawer, removes from Netherfield Mill to Brookhouse Mill

Brooke & Co., blanket and flannel manufacturers, Cleckheaton
1867 - Partnership between Ephraim Gibson, Thomas Kaye Brooke and John Brooke, blanket and flannel manufacturers under the style of Brooke & Co. has been dissolved by mutual consent. Thomas Kaye Brooke will continue the said business on his own account.

Broomfield Mills, Moor Bottom, Cleckheaton
1862 - Built around this time by Henry Shaw
12 Feb 1863 - to be let immediately: The newly erected mill, five storeys high, with other outbuildings situate at Moor Bottom, Cleckheaton, and well adapted for the worsted, woollen or cotton business. The mill is in easy distance from Leeds and Bradford markets, with coal cheap, and a good supply of hands and water. Such an opportunity for a desirable investment seldom offers. Any party desirous of treating for the same can be accommodated with a good residence, with from one to ten acres of land adjoining. Apply at the premises or to Mr Joseph Shaw, Moor Bottom, Cleckheaton.
1869 - Whiteley & Cowgill. Auction of items for the cotton spinning trade
1870 - E. Wadsworth & Sons.
1871 - Census entry for Elymas Wadsworth shows him employing 31 men and 292 youths
1875 - Tenders advertised for a substantial new wool warehouse
18 Oct 1876 - An inquest was held into the death a young boy called Ellis Kershaw, who was found dead in a hoist at Broomfield Mills. It was proved that the boy had no right to be on the premises and a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
1881 - Census for Elymas Wadsworth shows him a master worsted spinner employing 350 hands.
16 Jan 1884 - Albert Edwin Roberts, aged 12, was killed at Messrs. E. Wadsworth & Sons by a hoist falling upon him.
1947 - Large fire blamed on negligence by welders.

Butts Mill, Cleckheaton
Benjamin Holdsworth, flannel manufacturer
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Benjamin Holdsworth, woollen flannel & blanket manu., at Butts Mills, Upper Lane.
1871 - Census entry for Benjamin Holdsworth shows him a flannel manufacturer employing 23 men, 21 women, 10 boys & 8 girls.
1887 - Benjamin Holdsworth Goldthorp (Grandson of above), pledges £250 towards the cost of building the new Town Hall.
1915 - Advert for staff wanted at Holdsworth & Clissold Ltd., Butts Mill, Cleckheaton.
1922 - Advert for staff wanted at Walker, Holdsworth & Co. Ltd., Butts Mill, Cleckheaton.

Central Mills, Cleckheaton
1886 - Kemp Bros., blanket manufacturers. Fire at premises, owner reported to be a Mr R C Sykes
1890 - 1 Jun: Death of Rawdon Sykes, managing partner of Kemp Brothers, flannel manufacturers
1892 - Acquired by Wesley Barraclough, flannel manufacturer after his mill at Marsh was demolished in the chimney disaster. Premises had been temporarily used as a drill hall by the Cleckheaton Volunteers until the opening of the Drill Hall.
1901 - George Roberts (son-in-law of Wesley Barraclough) purchases the company and carries on the business still in the name of Wesley Barraclough.
1921 - Spencer Wire Co.

Clarence Mills, Cleckheaton (is this also Quarry Mill?)
1871 - Census entry for William Blackburn shows him a worsted spinner employing 100 hands.
16 Jun 1874 - Partnership between William Blackburn, James Pitt, Joseph Pitt, Edward Pitt & William Pitt, carrying on business at Cleckheaton as worsted spinners, under the style of William Blackburn & Co., was dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be continued by William Blackburn alone under the same style.
1877 - William Blackburn, worsted spinner. Employed upwards of 600 hands.
1881 - Large extension of the mill takes place.
1884 - Electric lighting introduced by William Blackburn.
1893 - W. Blackburn & Co. Ltd registered with a capital of £63,000 in £10 shares, to take over as a going concern the business of worsted yarn spinner and worsted yarn manufacturer carried on by W. Blackburn at Clarence Mills and Brook Mills, Cleckheaton, and to carry on the business of worsted, cotton and silk spinners and doublers, combers, weavers, dyers, finishers, bleachers, cleaners, etc. The signatories are, with one share each: William Blackburn, Spencer Blackburn, Stanley Blackburn, Mrs A.W. Blackburn, Jonathan Gomersall, William Brooke and Henry Pearson. The first directors are William Blackburn, Spencer Blackburn and Stanley Blackburn.
1899 - Lund Brothers Ltd., (Alfred & Thomas. Previously at Pudsey) owned by Sir Frederic A Aykroyd
1901 - Failure of F. Pickles & Co., worsted spinners.
1932 - Acquired by a well-established Bradford firm of John Mitton & Sons Ltd., Worsted spinners
1951 - Acquired by Salts (Saltaire Ltd), but continued as John Mitton & Sons Ltd.
1952 - Mill closes with loss of 60 jobs.

Cleckheaton Coffee Tavern Company
1889 - Premises opened in Market Street adjacent to the Co-operative Stores. The premises are very tastefully accommodated with billiard room, smoke room, 6 rooms to let, separate accommodation for the ladies, a committee room and rooms for a caretaker. The premises were literally an "alcohol-free" public house and was part of the temperance movement. Chairman, Samuel Reeve, a local manufacturing chemist.
1895 - Company voluntarily wound up after making steady losses. Premises purchased for £2700 by the Co-operative Stores.

Commercial Mills, Cleckheaton
1877 - J & A Carver, Machine makers (Joah & Albert)
1879 - Bankruptcy filed by George Carver, flannel manufacturer

Crawshaw & Charlesworth, boot manufacturers, Cleckheaton
27 Feb 1882 - Petition for liquidation filed by Albert Crawshaw of Town Street, Cleckheaton, boot manufacturer and formerly carrying on business in co-partner with George Charlesworth at Cleckheaton under the style of Crawshaw & Charlesworth. Liabilities £110.

Crow Trees Tannery, Cleckheaton
In the Brooke family family for several generations
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Edward Brooke, tanner at Crow Trees.

Excelsior Works, Cleckheaton
Edgar Barker, printer (Cleckheaton Guardian)

Exchange Mills, Cleckheaton
abt 1878 - Charles Hirst & Sons - Wire manufacturers

Farfield Mill, Cleckheaton
1878 - Bridgewater Bros., Cloth manufacturers (John Thomas & Francis Foster)
1889 - The premises, empty for some time apart from a small part used by Edward Brook of Crow Trees tannery, taken over by Savile Mills and occupied by Sykes Littlewood.

Fenton, Sugden & Co., worsted spinners, Cleckheaton
16 Sep 1869 - To be sold by private treaty, the whole of the valuable worsted machinery and effects in and about the factory lately occupied by Messrs. Fenton, Sugden and Co., worsted spinners, Cleckheaton.

Foundry Mill, Cleckheaton (the Old Foundry?)
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for George Jackson, woollen card maker at Old Foundry Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Joshua Jackson, Woollen card maker at Old Foundry Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for John & William Stead, iron & brass founders, machinists, engineers, millwrights, manufacturers of power looms for weaving cloth, blankets & general tool makers at Old Foundry.
1867 - Kemp Bros., Woollen manufacturers (owner John Stead)
1883 - Providence Mill, formerly occupied by Mr. Cockroft, sold to Harvey Kemp, flannel manufacturer, previously of Foundry Mill.

Green Bank Mill, Cleckheaton
1865 - To let at £120 per year. Apply Frank Sykes
1876 - Auction of various wood working tools & stock. Owner William Clough 

Grove Rope Works, Cleckheaton
The Blakelock family for many years

High Street Mills, Cleckheaton
1885 - S. Haley & Son
1899 - Acquired by Messrs. Chadwick of Rochdale. Premises at this time used by the American Cylinder Co.
1927 - A. Blackburn & Co. Ltd. 

Kitson & Fox, Card makers, Cleckheaton
15 Dec 1800 - Kitson & Fox, cardmakers - Partnership dissolved by mutual consent between Richard Kitson and Jonathan Fox.

Moody & Midgley, Wholesale Grocery, Cleckheaton
Hiram Midgley (b. 1858)
1973 - Taken over by Hillards

Moorland Mills, Cleckheaton
Samuel Law & Sons - Card makers
1871 - Census entry for Alfred Law shows him a card maker employing 25 men, 16 girls & 18 boys.
3 Dec 1881 - A man named Joseph Firth, a 41 year old stone mason, employed in removing the top part of the chimney at Moorland Mills, fell 120 feet to his death.
1906 - Plans passed for a new extension at Moorland Mills, the works of S. Law & Sons Ltd.
1954 - Death of managing director, Harry Darbyshire Norris

Mount View Works, Cleckheaton
Henry F Cockill & Sons, Leather curriers etc.
1871 - Census entry for Henry F Cockill shows him a currier employing 4 men & 2 boys.
1883 - Large extensions to the premises takes place.
1894 - 5 tons of leather belting, measuring 35,000 feet was made here and was exported to China.
1942 - J. H. Fenner & Co. Ltd

Netherfield Mills, Cleckheaton
5 Sep 1877 - Partnership dissolved by mutual consent of George Carver & Sons, Machine makers & iron founders. George & sons Spencer, Joah & Albert.
18 Sep 1877 - George Carver & Son (Spencer)
1879 - Bankruptcy filed by George Carver, machine maker
1894 - Considerable improvements at both Netherfield & Springfield Mills, owned by James Yates & Co. takes place. Netherfield Mills to be soon occupied by Sykes Littlewood who is removing from Farfield Mill. At the same time D. C. Bateman, wire drawer, removes from Netherfield Mill to Brookhouse Mill.
3 Jan 1895 - A large box being lifted by a crane at Messrs. Hardill, Sons & Co., Netherfield Foundry, fell to the ground after a sling broke. William Brackenbury and John Wood were not seriously injured but a young man called Arthur Longden had a leg broken. The breaking of the sling was attributed to the frost.
William Hardill, Sons & Co. 

G. & A. Nutter, worsted spinners & manufacturers, Cleckheaton
1868 - Partnership between George Nutter, Abraham Nutter and Robert Law the younger was mutually dissolved as far as Robert Law the younger. The business will be carried on by George Nutter and Abraham Nutter under the style of G & A Nutter.

J. & J. Nutter, oil and grease extractors, Cleckheaton
1886 - Dissolution of partnership. Business to be carried on by John Nutter.

Nutter & Law, worsted spinners & manufacturers, Cleckheaton
1868 - Partnership between George Nutter, Abraham Nutter and Robert Law the younger was mutually dissolved as far as Robert Law the younger. The business will be carried on by George Nutter and Abraham Nutter under the style of G & A Nutter.

Perseverance Works, Moor Bottom
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for James Newton, boiler maker at Hartshead Moor Bottom Boiler Works.
1860 - James Newton, boiler maker. Census entry for 1861 shows him employing 9 men.
1871 - Census entry for Israel Umpleby shows him as a boiler maker employing 8 men and 4 boys.
1872 - Israel Umpleby fined for employing under aged children at his works
1907 - I & B Umpleby (Israel & Benjamin), boiler makers become a limited company.

Perseverance Works, Stone Street, Cleckheaton
1884 - Samuel Roberts, card manufacturer
1889 - Death of Samuel Roberts
1890 - Map shows it as a card mill

Phelon & Moore, motorcycle manufacturers, Cleckheaton
Joah Carver Phelon
1904 - Richard Moore joins the company.

Prospect Mill, Cleckheaton
Edwin Stead & Sons, machine makers
1871 - Census entry for Edwin Stead shows him a machine maker employing 7 men & 4 boys.
R. Walton & Co. - wire drawers
1889 - Property including offices, stables, land and cottages bought for £4000 by William Sharp of Sunny Bank, Scholes.
1905 - Critchley, Sharp & Tetlow - Card makers. A new company formed taking in the establishments of Messrs. James Critchley & Son, New Mills, Batley Carr; Messrs William Sharp & Son, Albert Mills, Scholes and Messrs L.M. Tetlow & Sons, Britannia Mills, Cleckheaton. Directors will be John Tetlow (chairman), R.I. Critchley, William Sharp, William Henry Sharp and Samuel Sharp.
1906 - Plans passed for a new card mill at Prospect Street for Critchley, Sharp & Tetlow.

Providence Mills, Cleckheaton (rear of Providence Place Chapel)
1861 - Census entry for James Cockroft shows him as a wire manufacturer employing 12 men & 12 boys
1868 - James Cockroft, Wire manufacturer
1870 - Death of James Cockroft
1876 - Failure of Booth & Robson, stuff manufacturers (Alfred & Charles Stewart)
1879 - Failure of John Knapton, Stuff manufacturer
1880 - Bankruptcy filed by Hopkinson & Kellett (Joseph & Edwin)
1882 - Walker & Squire, Wire drawers (occupying the middle floor). Partnership dissolved. Premises owned by trustees (William James Cockroft, William Morrison & William Rhodes) of the late Mr. James Cockroft.
1883 - Providence Mill, formerly occupied by Mr. Cockroft, sold to Harvey Kemp, flannel manufacturer, previously of Foundry Mill.
1897 - Auction of Providence Mill, lately occupied by E & A Smith & Co. Ltd, wool manufacturers
1902 - William Haigh, band spinner. Premises gutted by a large fire

Providence Mills, Cleckheaton (Westgate)
Later Lion Confectionery.

Quarry Mill, Cleckheaton (is this also Clarence Mill?)
23 Sep 1868 - Bankruptcy filed by Joshua Ripley of Cleckheaton and Arthur Clark of Leeds carrying on business as cotton spinners under the style of Ripley & Clark.
1872 - Midgley Marsden. Auction of his liquidated stock

Abraham Roberts & Co., builders, Cleckheaton
1841 - Insolvency case. Partners: Abraham Roberts, John Roberts, Benjamin Roberts & Stephen Thornton.

Samuel Roberts & Sons, Card makers, Cleckheaton
24 Aug 1892 - Fire at premises of S Roberts & Son, card makers. A two storey building containing valuable wire drawing and tempering machinery was totally destroyed. The building destroyed is some 15 yards by eight and two storeys high. It is only divided from the main mill by five feet and fire was kept from reaching other parts of the works.
1906 - Death of Alfred Shaw Roberts

(Old) Rolling Mills, Cleckheaton
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Woodcock & England, Swedish wire iron rollers & scrap iron manfrs., at Rolling Mills.
1886 - Henry Crowther & Sons. Founded by Henry Crowther around this time.
1903 - Henry Crowther & Sons (Cleckheaton) Ltd., register their company with a capital of £10,000 in £4 shares for their business in shafting and pulley making.
1922 - Death of Frank Crowther, senior partner of Henry Crowther & Sons Ltd.
1952 - Death of James Crowther, managing director of Henry Crowther & Sons Ltd.

Round Hill Mill, Gomersal
Worsted spinners. Founder - Jonathan Gomersal, who died in 1933.

Savile Mills, Cleckheaton (later called Scandinavia Mills and eventually used by the BBA)
Built in  1874 by the Cleckheaton Mill Co. at a cost of around £13,000.
1877 - S. Upton & Co., combers and spinners. Partners: Samuel Upton, Cleckheaton; Henry Hanson, Low Moor; Benjamin Farnell, Horton: Edwin Farnell, Cleckheaton and Jesse Farnell, Cleckheaton.
1881 - Godfrey Roberts & Son, Textile manufacturers
17 Mar 1882 - A. Snowden & Co., worsted manufacturers. Partnership dissolved between Arthur Snowden, Charles Fieldhouse and Henry Snowden, Saville Mills, Cleckheaton and Swaine Street, Bradford, so far as regards Henry Snowden.
1895 - Samuel Jackson & Sons, worsted spinners.
1900 - Death of Samuel Jackson, worsted spinner of Savile Mills, which he had carried on for about 20 years. He was also a director of the Chadwick Machine Co. and of S. Haley & Sons, Ltd of Pyenot Hall Works.
1900 - Premises to let by The Cleckheaton Mill Company
1901 - W. Willson Cobbett Ltd., textile belting.  (Walter)

Samuel Schofield & Co., worsted manufacturers, Cleckheaton
1873 - Partnership dissolved between Samuel Schofield, Charles Fieldhouse, Arthur Snowden and Henry Snowden carrying on business as worsted manufacturers at Cleckheaton. The business to be carried on by Charles Fieldhouse, Arthur Snowden and Henry Snowden.

Wm. Shepherd & Sons - Machine makers, Moorbottom, Cleckheaton.
17 Oct 1892 - Company fined 2s 6d at Bradford Court for failing to display a copy of the Factory & Workshops Act at their premises. The company was also cautioned for failing to notify the change of their premises.

Spen Mills, Cleckheaton
1841 - Joseph Mann & Sons, Maltsters & Corn millers
Firth & Blackburn, Corn millers (Arthur & Samuel)
1857 - Kelly's Post Office Directory lists FIRTH & BLACKBURN, corn millers, Spen Mill
1871 - Census entry for Samuel Blackburn shows him a corn miller & maltster employing 24 men.

Springfield Mill, Cleckheaton
1879 - James Yates & Son, Card makers. Henry Yates, surviving partner files for bankruptcy.
1894 - Considerable improvements at both Netherfield & Springfield Mills, owned by James Yates & Co. takes place.
1905 - New Company - James Yates and Son, Ltd., has been registered with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares, to acquire the business carried on by Mr H. Yates, at Springfield Mills, Cleckheaton and elsewhere, as card manufacturers, wire drawers and platers, etc. There will be no initial public issue.
1930 - Cleckheaton Spinning Co. Ltd.
1950 - Cleckheaton Combers Ltd.

St. John's Foundry
Edward Schofield Stead (1876?), card setting machine makers

St. John's Mill, Cleckheaton
1871 - Census entry for James Pitt shows him a sewing machine maker employing 25 men & 15 boys
1872 - Pitt Brothers. Sewing machine works

St. Peg Mills, Cleckheaton
Built around the 1800 period by Henry Birkby.
1805 - Carter, Barrows & Co.
1814 - William Atkinson & Sons. Worsted spinners
18 Aug 1842 - Plug riots - A large band of men marched to Atkinson's Mill at Spen with the intention of stopping the boilers. They were met by a small force of cavalry who charged them with swords drawn and fired shots over their heads. Numerous prisoners were taken.
1851 - Census for William Atkinson, residing at Peg Mill, shows he was employing 61 men, 55 women, 99 boys and 151 girls.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for William Atkinson & Son, worsted spinners & merchants at St. Peg Mills.
1861 - Census for Edward Atkinson residing at St. Peg Mills shows he was employing 300 hands.
31 Jan 1868 - Death of John Thornton, for many years foreman of the mechanic's shop at St. Peg Mills.
1 Feb 1868 - Sidney Mortimer, bookkeeper, was closing the main gates at St. Peg Mills when a sudden gust of wind slammed them shut. His right hand was so badly crushed that the fingers had to be amputated.
1880 - Plans passed by the Cleckheaton Local Board for a new wool shed by Wm. Atkinson & Sons.

Stead & Haley, cycle agents and wire drawers' tool makers, Moorend, Cleckheaton
1905 - Partnership dissolved between Allen Stead and John Haley.

Tofts Mill, Cleckheaton
abt 1870 - Charles Hirst, Wire manufacturer. Later moves to Exchange Mills
1871 - Census entry for Charles Hirst shows him a master wire drawer employing 3 men & 4 boys.
12 Aug 1890 - Auction at the George Hotel, Cleckheaton for Tofts Mill, Serpentine Road, along with vacant land adjoining and includes engine house, engine, shafting, fittings, mill and 1760 square yards of land. Mr. John Tetlow of L M Tetlow & Sons was the purchaser at £1800.
1910 - A. Blackburn & Co.
1915 - Thomas Holdsworth, Wire manufacturer
1923 - Brook & Littlewood (silk trade?)

Upper Lane Mills, Cleckheaton
1840 - Stott & Co., worsted spinners. Partners: Eli Stott of Bowling and John Booth of Cleckheaton. The 1840 electoral register records Eli Stott of Wakefield Road, Bowling qualifying for occupying a mill at Upper Lane, Cleckheaton.
1860's - T. Bentley & Co. (Thomas)
1873 - Midgley Marsden. Auction of liquidated stock.
1878 - Mortimer & Sykes, Flock manufacturers. Auction of their stock etc.
1888 - Failure of Watson & Birkett, curriers & leather dealers (Lewis & Joseph)
1892 - Bentley's Mill, Upper Lane Mills ordered to shorten their chimney by 20 yards following the Marsh Mills disaster. Owner of premises is W Crowther & Son, Gomersal
1894 - John Thornton, machine broker
1894 - John Walker, wire drawer
1895 - John Blackburn & Sons, card makers. Bankruptcy filed by Edwin Blackburn.
1899 - Blackburn, Walker & Co., electrical engineers. Bankruptcy filed by Arthur Blackburn of Harriet Street, Dewsbury and James Walker of Dale Street, Batley Carr.
1902 - William Jackson, Basket maker
1903 - Large fire. Premises of William Midgley, machine maker on the ground floor; Executors of John Walker, wire manufacturers on the second floor and William Middleton & Son, cardmakers on the top floor were all severely damaged. Premises owned by  William Crowther & Son of Gomersal.
1921 - Robert Peel & Son, card curriers
1953 - G. E. Whiteley Ltd., Scrap metal, machinery & plant merchants.

Victoria Mill, Cleckheaton (Waltroyd)
One part of the Mill was built as early as 1830 by Benjamin Firth for a school, one of the first places of education for the town. He later removed to the academy at Hartshead Manor. Many of the past occupants of Highfield House are associated with these premises.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for the executors of David Fox, woollen & worsted card makers at Victoria Mill, Upper Lane.
1860 - David Fox & Son
1867 - Auction at the premises of the entire stock and machinery by Thomas Fox, who is giving up the business.
1881 - Titus Berry & Sons, flannel manufacturers. Bankruptcy filed.
1881 - Census entry for Titus Berry, flannel manufacturer shows employing 6 men, 33 females & 8 boys
1900 - Atkinson & Varley, Coopers (Thomas & Jackson)

Victoria Mills, Cleckheaton
Founded in 1832 - George Anderton & Son
3 Sep 1842 - Plug riots - At the Crown Court, York Castle, Thomas Kilburn was charged with having on 16 Aug 1842, conspired with others, for committing a riot and unplugging the boiler at the mill belonging to Mr George Anderton. He was found guilty and sentenced to 3 months hard labour.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for George Anderton & Son, Victoria Mills, Cleckheaton
1861 - Census entry for George Anderton shows him a worsted spinner employing 163 males & 339 females.
1871 - Census entry for George Anderton shows him a worsted spinner employing 126 males & 244 females.
1912 - Additional mill premises opened in the Strawberry Mill area of Doncaster. 

Walker's Mill, Northgate, Cleckheaton
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Fox & Sykes, general card makers at Walker's Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Joseph Hirst, wire drawer & card maker at Walker's Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Charles Dronsfield Moseley, general card maker at Walker's Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Samuel Pinder, card machine maker at Walker's Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Joseph Squire, wire drawer at Walker's Mill
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for James Yates, woollen & cotton card maker at Walker's Mill.
26 Aug 1872 - Auction at the Royal Hotel, Cleckheaton: Substantial stone-built mill, boiler house and outbuildings known by the name of Walker's Mill, Northgate, Cleckheaton. The main building being three storeys with a wing at each end two storeys high, the whole measuring 151 feet long and 38 feet wide.
Also a brick-built erection, two storeys high, blacksmith's shop, slaughterhouse and shed adjoining the said mill and also a plot of valuable building land adjoining thereto. Premises comprise an area of approx. 2600 square yards. Drainage is excellent and there is an abundant supply of water from a well on the premises.
1873 - Hirst & Walker, woollen machine makers (owner: Walker Brothers)

Water Lane Mill, Cleckheaton
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for John Gill, woollen flannel & blanket manu., at Water Lane Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Jonas Gill, corn miller at Water Lane Mill
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for John Overend, card maker at Water Lane Mill.
1857 - Entry in Post Office Directory for Pitt Brothers, piecing machine manufacturers & general machinists at Water Lane Mill.
1890's? - William Sugden & Sons, shirt manufacturers
6 Jun 1921 - New Company - William Sugden and Sons, registered with a capital of £130,000 in £1 shares. To take over the business of shirt manufacturers carried on by A.T., B.P.S., and W.C. Sugden as "William Sugden and Sons" at Water Lane Mills, Cleckheaton; Empire Mills, Barnsley and Clarence Mills, Wakefield.

Waterfield Mill, Cleckheaton
1871 - Census entry for John Gill shows he was a flannel manufacturer employing 18 men, 30 females & 4 boys.
1875 - Flannel manufacturers. Owner John Gill. 3 storeys high. Ground floor willeying machine, upper floors power looms.
1893 - Purchased by Levi Harwood & Co. of Luddendenfoot who remained here for at least the next 60 years.

West End Mill, Cleckheaton
1879 - Bankruptcy filed by Joseph Clay, flannel & blanket manufacturer
1890 - Henry Heaton, flannel manufacturer
8 Jun 1891 - Fire at the works of Henry Heaton, flannel manufacturer, adjoining West End Mills. Damage caused to machinery & stock valued at £400.

Westgate Works, Cleckheaton
1879 - Petition of liquidation filed by C Butler & C Holt, manufacturing chemists of Iron Street, Cleckheaton carrying on business under the style of C Butler.
1892 - Saunders & Saunders, chemical manufacturers. Partners Thomas Bealby Saunders of Upper House, Liversedge and Ashby Varley Saunders of Bradford. Case heard regarding their failure with over £31,000 liabilities.

Wharfe Works, Cleckheaton
P & C Garnett (Peter & Charles). Established c.1850
1861 - Census for Peter Garnett, engineer& machinist employing 35 men & boys

Wilson & Berry, Machine makers, St. John’s Place, Cleckheaton.
Founded by James Wilson (1848-1891). Partner Stephen Berry died 1890ish.

Woodroyd Mills, South Parade, Cleckheaton
Oct 1898 - Damon Roberts & Sons Limited. This company has been registered with a capital of £10,000 in £10 shares to take over as a going concern the business of card makers and wire drawers, now carried on under the style or firm of Damon Roberts & Sons at Woodroyd Mills, Cleckheaton. The first directors are Messrs. Edwin, William H and Arthur Roberts.
25 Nov 1902 - Voluntary liquidation of Damon Roberts & Sons, Ltd. Woodroyd mill offered for sale at auction. Mill described as having two storeys with a basement, engine and boiler houses, tempering mill, stabling etc. and a dwelling house and yard covering a total of 2136 square yards. Bidding started at £1000 but the property was withdrawn at £1500.
24 Mar 1938 - Death of Ernest Taylor, member of the firm James Taylor & Sons, Ltd., Woodroyd Mills (part of the English Card Clothing Co.)