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researched, recorded and referenced by Mrs Sheila Wade
Hebden Bridge WEA Local History Group
Township of Stansfield 1805
Cinderhill Factory Building; owned by Lob Mill Co; occupied by Ingham, Haworth & Co; annual value £56.15s.0d.
Leeds Mercury 3rd January 1818
For sale, Cinderhill Factory near New Shop. Newly erected, 5 storeys, 24yds by 12yds. Adjoining the Halifax to Burnley Turnpike and the Rochdale Canal. Tenant John Howarth.
Leeds Mercury 27th February 1819
Auction 4th March. Cinderhill Factory and farm.
Lot 1: newly erected Cinderhill factory near New Shop, Stansfield now occupied by John Howarth. (and land). 24yds by 12yds, 5 storeys adjoining Halifax to Burnley turnpike and contiguous to Rochdale Canal, 1 mile from Todmorden. Also a plot of land well suited for mill dam. Particulars from Thomas Knowles of Dobroyd, John Howarth of Cinderhill factory and Richard Ingham of Haugh.
Sutcliffe papers Leeds Archives 12th October 1820
Agreement. Thomas Knowles of Dobroyd in the Parish of Rochdale, maltster and agent for John Knowles of Burnley, surgeon, and Richard Ingham, Castle Lodge, Stansfield, gentleman. Richard Ingham is buying property, house and land plus Cinderhill Factory for £1,300.
Sutcliffe papers Leeds Archives 8th January 1823
Peel Williams & Co to Richard Ingham & Co. to furnish a 26hp engine and 1 boiler at 30hp all for £840. Half to be paid when engine delivered and half when set to work. To be delivered by or before the middle of August 1823. Engine did not arrive until Spring 1824.
Sutcliffe papers Leeds Archives 5th July 1824
Letter to Richard Ingham & Sons from Peel Williams & Co. Manchester about supply of mill engine – a beam engine. There has been a stoppage on the canal, which has held up the parts.
Full details of engine from Peel Williams & Co. Soho Foundry, Manchester.
20hp engine.
Peel Williams & Co. had to pay for board and lodgings for 1 engineer from Manchester, including ale, at the setting of the boiler. Bill came to £6.9s.1d.
Pigot & Deane 1824-25 and 1828-29
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill and Millsteads, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
Parson & White 1830
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
Factory Enquiry Commission 1833
Cinderhill; cotton spinning; 28 hanks of weft and twist. Mill built 1824; 20hp steam engine; 12 hour day; 9 hours on Saturday.
White 1842 and 1843
Richard Ingham & Bros. Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
Walker 1845
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
White 1847
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
White 1853
William and John Ingham, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers
Stansfield Rates Book 1854-1860
Owned and occupied by Ingham Bros; Cinderhill; mill and power; rateable value £256.7s.0d.
1863
Division of property between surviving sons of Richard Ingham who died about 1810. His eldest son, Richard junior, died in 1853.
White 1866
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers
Stansfield Rates Book 1867
Occupier John A. Ingham; owners Ingham Bros; Castle Street; mill etc; rateable value £261.4s.3d; loomshed £28.16s.0d; new warehouse £8.17s.0d.
Stansfield Rates Book 1868
Occupier John A. Ingham; owners Ingham Bros; Castle Street; mill etc; rateable value £298.17s.3d. New shed (empty) £14.5s.0d.
Stansfield Rates Book 1869
Occupier John A. Ingham; owners Ingham Bros; Castle Street; mill etc; rateable value £313.2s.3d; new smithy £8.8s.0d.
Stansfield Rates Book 1870-75
Occupier John A. Ingham; owners Ingham Bros; Castle Street; mill etc; rateable value £321.10s.3d; new warehouse (empty) £13.6s.6d.
Kelly 1871
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
Slater 1875
Richard Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill and Woodhouse, cotton spinners & manufacturers.
Notes from John Travis
Inghams, who had power looms in part of Cinderhill Mill since before 1840, built a weaving shed for 300 looms about 1875.
Stansfield Rates Book 1876-78
Occupier John A. Ingham; owners Ingham Bros; Castle Street; mill etc; rateable value £334.16s.9d; new weaving shed £60.5s.0d.
The Leeds Mercury Friday November 1st 1878
Todmorden trade depressed.
Messrs. Ingham, Cinderhill and Woodhouse Mills; 420 looms; 19,000 spindles; running full time but second reduction of 10% recently come into operation.
Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Advertiser 1st August 1879
Cinderhill Mill; 9,000 spindles; 420 looms; running full time but throstles running 4 days.
Halifax Courier 20th December 1879
Richard Ingham, Castle Street, strike against bad material and for increase in wages.
Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Advertiser 9th January 1880
R. Ingham & Sons, Cinderhill Mill, weavers on strike for short time.
Leeds Archives Sutcliffe papers 1880
Partnership agreement between Elias Barker and James Greenwood, cotton spinners, at Cinderhill Mill and shed, and Woodhouse Mill.
Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Advertiser 23rd April 1880
Barker and Greenwood, Cinderhill Mill, Castle Street, weavers wages advanced 3.75%.
Stansfield Rates Book 1880-81
Occupied by Barker & Greenwood; owner J. A. Ingham; mill and power; Castle Street; rateable value £402.15s.0d.
1881 – rateable value £349.15s.0d.
Stansfield Rates Book 1882
Occupied by Elias Barker and others; owner J. A. Ingham; weaving shed; Castle Street; rateable value £60.5s.0d.
Factory Act Prosecutions
8th February 1883
Messrs Barker and Greenwood, cotton spinners and manufacturers of Cinderhill and Woodhouse Mills, Stansfield.
2 Cases heard before A. Ormerod and J. Ingham Esqrs at Todmorden.
1 – Employing 2 women during part of a meal time, to wit, after 5.30 p.m.
Penalty of £3 and costs of 17s.
2 – Employing a young person without a certificate of fitness more than 7 days
Penalty £1 and costs of 13s.6d.
Halifax Courier 12th April 1884
Partnership dissolved. Barker & Greenwood, Cinderhill near Todmorden, cotton spinners.
Stansfield Rates Book 1885-88
Occupied by Elias Barker; owner J. A. Ingham; mill and power; Castle Street; rateable value £259.
Halifax Courier 18th April 1885
Mr. J. A. Ingham of The Shaw has commenced building a new chimney for Cinderhill Mill as the present one is not safe.
Halifax Courier 5th September 1885
Strike of weavers employed by Elias Barker at Cinderhill Mill
Manchester Examiner 22nd July 1887
Elias Barker, Cinderhill and Woodhouse Mills, 24,000 spindles; 450 looms; working 5 days a week.
Stansfield Rates Book 1890-97
Occupier James Bancroft & Co; owner J. A. Ingham; mill and power; part unused; 1 engine dismantled; Cinderhill; rateable value £215.
1900
John Arthur Ingham died without an interested heir.
Worrall 1891
James Bancroft & Co. Ltd; Millstead and Cinderhill Mills; 1,000 looms; lustres, grandrills, oxfords, zephyrs, drills, twills etc; and at Burnley. Manchester Office Carr Street, Blackfriars.
Coronation Souvenir 1902
T. Thwaite & Dobson, Cinderhill Mill, Castle Street, Todmorden; makers of lathes, hand planes and other fine tools, also chucks, drills etc.
Kelly 1908
Collins Bros; Cinderhill Mill; cotton manufactuers
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