Leather industry



There was a small leather industry in the district.

Some of those involved included



William Bayes
Boothtown Leather Works
Scipio Brook

Samuel Camm & Company
Card clothing
Marshall Charlesworth
Clogs
James Cooke
Cordwainer

Dean, Howarth & Company

Richard & Joseph Emmett

Edward Fairburn & Sons
Francis Fleming
Fleming, Birkby & Goodall Limited
J. Fleming & Son
Thomas Fleming, Son & Company
Fletcher & Shaw
Flying shuttle

E. Gledhill & Sons
Mary Gledhill & Son
Amos Graham
W. Grimes & Son

W. Harrison
John Hartley
Heywood's



Hill & Heginbottom

Kerr & Jubb

James Lee & Sons
John Lewthwaite

Henry Oates
John Henry Oates
Walter Holroyd Oates
Ormerod Tool Company

Picker
Richard Priestley

Ramsden's (Halifax)
Ryburn Leather Works, Sowerby Bridge

Edwin Stansfield

Wilson Taylor
George Booth Thompson
George Thompson & Sons Limited

James Walton
Waltons of Halifax
Taylor Wheelhouse
Mark Wilcock
Sylvanus Reynolds Wilcock
Thomas Wilson
 

In February 1879, there was a depression in the leather trade which led to many business failures locally and nationally



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