Bowling Ironworks
Other Business Names:
- Sturges family
- Paley, Richard
- Bowling Iron Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bradford, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Cannon, gun & shot founding inc cannon balls
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Metal casting
Notes:
Traced origins to c1780 when established by Sturges family of Wakefield and Richard Paley of Leeds. Quickly emerged as a major iron founding business. Initially made household goods and, soon after, cannon. 1870 incorporated as Bowling Iron Co Ltd
Publications:
- 'Bowling Iron Co. Managers Messrs Turner and W Marshall Selwyn' in George Measom, Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway; including the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire and Midland Railway by Measom, George
- Bowling Ironworks by Long, Hilary
- Further observations on the Bowling Ironworks by Dodsworth, Charles
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Sturges family
- Paley, Richard
- Bowling Iron Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bradford, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Cannon, gun & shot founding inc cannon balls
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Metal casting
Notes:
Traced origins to c1780 when established by Sturges family of Wakefield and Richard Paley of Leeds. Quickly emerged as a major iron founding business. Initially made household goods and, soon after, cannon. 1870 incorporated as Bowling Iron Co LtdPublications:
- 'Bowling Iron Co. Managers Messrs Turner and W Marshall Selwyn' in George Measom, Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway; including the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire and Midland Railway by Measom, George
- Bowling Ironworks by Long, Hilary
- Further observations on the Bowling Ironworks by Dodsworth, Charles