DALE STREET WORKS
Machine Shop and Joiners Shop
Dale Street
Todmorden
Map Ref. SD936241
Dale Street Works 2005
Known occupiers
1820-
HOLT James
1853-1867
JACKSON Jeremiah
1855
SHACKLETON John
1856-57
SCHOLFIELD & BOOTH
1856-1890
METCALFE Henry
1858-64
BUTTERWORTH & HEYWORTH
1865
HEYWORTH John
1867-70
CRABTREE James
1869-1870
CRAWSHAW & LAW
1871-74
SUTCLIFFE Bros.
1871-1890
LAW William
1875-79
WHITAKER James
1895
STANSFIELD Jackson
William Law, the son of Elijah Law, a shoemaker, completed an apprenticeship to become a machine maker, working and living on Dale Street in Todmorden. In 1891, his pregnant daughter CLARA LAW was murdered by her sweetheart John William Halstead at Dale Street Co-op.
2005
Additional information
researched, recorded and referenced by Mrs Sheila Wade
Hebden Bridge WEA Local History Group
Machine Shop
1851 census
Jeremiah Jackson, Cockpit, aged 75, mechanic
Jeremiah Jackson, Union Street, aged 38, machine maker employing 6 men.
White 1853
Jeremiah Jackson, Dale Street, machine maker
Slater 1855
Jeremiah Jackson, Dale Street, machine maker
Langfield Rates Book 1856-67
Occupied by Jeremiah Jackson; owner Henry Metcalfe; 3hp and machine shop; rateable value £30.6s.6d.
1865 – re-valued £20.7s.6d.
1868 – empty
Kelly 1861
Jeremiah Jackson, Dale Street, machine maker
White 1866
Jeremiah Jackson, Dale Street, machine maker
Langfield Rates Book 1869-70
Occupied by Crawshaw & Law; owner Henry Metcalfe; 3hp and machine shop; rateable value £20.7s.6d.
Census 1871
William Law, 23 Dale Street, machine maker
Langfield Rates Book 1871-90
Occupied by William Law; owner Henry Metcalfe; 3hp and machine shop; rateable value £20.7s.6d.
1880 – rateable value £45.5s.0d
1890 – rateable value £27.5s.0d.
White 1877
William Law, machinist (cotton), Dale Street
1881 census
William Law, 20 Dale Street, master machinist employing 5 men and 3 boys
1891 census
William Law, Dale Street, machinist and toolmaker
2005
Joiners Shop
Notes from John Travis, contemporary historian:
It may here be mentioned that Dale-street was originally Deal-street, that name being given to it when Mr. James Holt, joiner and builder, had his workshop there about 1820.
Census 1841
James Holt, York Street, aged 45, joiner & builder
Census 1851
John Shackleton, Patmos, aged 31, joiner & builder employing 10 men
Slater 1855
John Shackleton, Dale Street, joiner and carpenter
Langfield Rates Book 1856-57
Occupied by Scholfield & Booth; owner Henry Metcalfe; joiners shop Dale Street; rateable value £8.14s.1d.
Langfield Rates Book 1858-64
Occupied by Butterworth & Heyworth; owned by Henry Metcalfe; joiners shop Dale Street; rateable value £8.14s.1d.
1862 – additions £5.16s.0d.
Langfield Rates Book 1865
Occupied by John Heyworth; owner Henry Metcalfe; joiners shop Dale Street; rateable value £13.14s.6d
Langfield Rates Book 1867-70
Occupied by James Crabtree; owned by Henry Metcalfe; heald shop; Dale Street; rateable value £13.14s.6d
Factory Act Prosecutions 9th May 1867
James Crabtree of Dale Street Todmorden – reed and heald maker
5 cases heard before Capt. Sutcliffe chairman, Rev. T. Sutcliffe, John Fielden, Abraham Ormerod, and Geo. Hinchcliffe esqs at Todmorden Sessions.
- Having employed a young person without having previously registered her name in the register for young persons – Penalty of £2 and costs of 13s.0d
- Having employed the same young person for more than seven days without a surgical certificate – Penalty £2 and costs of 13s.0d
- Having employed a child without having previously registered her name in the register for children – Penalty of £2 and costs of 13s.0d
- Having employed the same child for more than seven days without a surgical certificate – Penalty £2 and costs of 13s.0d
- Having employed a child without registration of name or surgical certificate - Penalty – Nil – costs of £1.6s.0d.
Total Penalties £8 – Total Costs £3.18s.0d
There is a note attached to Case no 5 – Penalty not pressed for in these cases on account of the poverty of the defendant.
Langfield Rates Book 1871-74
Occupied by Sutcliffe Bros; owned by Henry Metcalfe; joiners shop; Dale Street; rateable value £13.14s.6d
Langfield Rates Book 1875-79
Occupied by James Whitaker; owned by Henry Metcalfe; 2 workshops; Dale Street; rateable value £13.14s.6d
Slater 1895
Jackson Stansfield, Dale Street, joiner and builder |
