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Title: Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292
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Title
Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292
Description
Several Todmorden firms produced or maintained the machinery used in the cotton factories. Lord Bros. produced textile machinery, often building looms to their own specification. Jeremiah Jackson was also in the machine trade as textile engineers, providing dyeing, finishing, sizing and bleaching machines. Astin & Barker were millwrights producing boilers, flywheels and iron goods in the foundry. The canal bridge of 1864 by Todmorden Library was designed and built by them. A Kinghorn & Co was founded when Arthur Kinghorn broke away from Lord & Kinghorn in 1885. The firm which produced machine tools for the sheet metal industry celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1986. The Walker family over four generations had started as apprentices on the shop floor before moving to executive positions.
Here the management of Astin & Barker's stand proudly with their latest production. The photograph is taken outside their premises - once known as "The Barracks" - on Salford, on the morning of 7th July 1906. Later on the wagon was paraded through the town in the Lifeboat Saturday procession.
Here the management of Astin & Barker's stand proudly with their latest production. The photograph is taken outside their premises - once known as "The Barracks" - on Salford, on the morning of 7th July 1906. Later on the wagon was paraded through the town in the Lifeboat Saturday procession.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Date
1906, 1900s
Rights
PHDA - Todmorden Information Centre Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
MOT00292.tif
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Astin & Barkers, Salford - MOT00292,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/10604.
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