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Joseph Webb & Sons Ltd of Elton, forgemasters & steelwork erectors: records

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This record is about the Joseph Webb & Sons Ltd of Elton, forgemasters & steelwork erectors: records dating from 1896-1965.

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Title: Joseph Webb & Sons Ltd of Elton, forgemasters & steelwork erectors: records
Date: 1896-1965
Description: COLLECTION CONSISTS OF FINANCIAL RECORDS, MINUTE BOOKS AND LETTERS BOOKS
Related material: <p>For further notes on this firm, see F Campbell 'Bury's Two Rivers' 1988 ISBN 1 85216 021 7</p>
Held by: Bury Museum and Archives
Language: English
Creator(s): <corpname>Joseph Webb and Sons Ltd of Elton, forgemasters</corpname>
Physical description: 11 items/33 cu.dm.
Administrative / biographical background: The firm was founded by Joseph Webb of Staffordshire, who established a small rolling mill in Elton c.1846: a forge was added later. Principal customers were local textile machinery manufacturers. Joseph was succeeded in the business by his sons Henry and George, and their sons, the last of whom, William Webb, died in 1970. In addition to the forge, a stock warehouse was maintained in Knowsley Street, later moved adjacent to the forge at Bury bridge, and in 1956, a new constructional engineering works was added, replacing the rolling mill which closed in 1923. The firm closed in 1974.
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/51c9f51d-02a2-40f0-b8bd-2745a35bb827/