Whittaker's of Dowry Street Works

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by walkinman221

Was speaking to mr finch last night at the spar i was asking how is gout was Thanks cashy i remember it happening when i was but a lad

That's where I saw him last, he was hobbling back to his car.
Previous to that we were sat at the same table at a Wedding, he kept us amused as usual.

When he left the Accrington Fire Station he went to Chorley as a fire person instructor, he has been retired a while now.

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by Atarah

Why does the name HAWORTH spring to my mind? Maybe I am just imagining it Bob? I bet Cath, ex Librarian, would help you on that.

It's not Mr Haworth from Whalley - he is a Lightfoot. I've already tried Cath - no joy. I have found a couple of people oin the Family History Society's Yahoo forum who have an interest in Whittakers. I have asked the Family History Soc if there is any member who is researching the Whittakers, but had no definite response as yet.

[xaccy]

Hi Bob Doug kellett here enjoyed the reunion very much sent some pictures to Jeff Taylor taken during the evening if you would like the same email me [email protected] and will send them to you.

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by xaccy

Hi Bob Doug kellett here enjoyed the reunion very much sent some pictures to Jeff Taylor taken during the evening if you would like the same email me [email protected] and will send them to you.

Reyt. Will do, though I suspect that you have popsted on the wrong thread

[Gill Walker]

I was looking for something else about Whittakers and found this! My dad - Tom Barnes - was a senior clerk at the Dowry Street works until he died aged 49 in 1969. The firm made brick making machinery. I now live in North Yorkshire and was at Ravenscar yesterday where there was a Whittakers plant making bricks for the "town that never was". I wondered if they were the same Whittakers? We found a NORI brick there years ago

[cashman]

Me dad worked yon from after the war until around 72, when ill health knackered him up, Don't think the firm oer yon would be the same one,as well as brick making stuff, they made stuff fer the Mining Industry,

[Bob Dobson]

Two clues might guide Gill as to whether this was Whittakers of Dowry Streeet - Was it made by C.(for Christopher) Whittaker & Co Ltd? Did it have the wording 'New Era' on it. If yes to either of these - it's ours.
I think it unluikely that there would have been another Whitakers involved in brick making,although there was a company called Thomas Whittaker , Canal foundry,. Church which was a rival founded by an unsettled member of the founding family. It went bankrupt. I will enquire as to a Ravenscar connection.

[Gill Walker]

Thanks Bob - we need to go searching for bricks again properly; I imagine the most likely place for Accrington brick was the chimney attached to the works. We know that they made bricks for Ravenscar from the local shale waste which seemed to go soft as clay when wet, after processing to retrieve the alum. It was quite an effective industrial circular process using the waste for bricks to build the town

[rtbarton]

From being a nipper I recall the name Mary Howarth. My Great Grandad's sister maried a Whittaker (he worked at an "ironworks" most likely Whittaker's,) but I don't know if her Whittaker was connected with the owners.

Our Whittakers also married a Westall, another name I remember from my childhood.

[Observer]

Thomas Whittaker of C. Whittaker and Co. was my great, great, great grandfather. One of his son's, James, married Mary Jane Haworth from Oswaldtwistle. They had five children:- James Haworth, Mary A (Marie), James, Jane and Gladys Ellen.
Jane Whittaker was my grandmother. Jane married Donald Ryden and their daughter, Pat, was my mother. She married Harry Crossley.
I believe Mary Jane Haworth's parents were John Haworth and Jane (nee Tattersall).
My mother held some shares in C Whittaker and Co. and I remember attending a shareholders' meeting with her around 1972. The meeting was chaired by Norman Whittaker wearing a bright blue blazer with brass buttons. He announced that the company could no longer carry on and proposed it be voluntarily wound up. The shareholders put their
hands up and approved the motion - and Whittaker's was no more.

[Observer]

My great grandfather, James Whittaker (son of Thomas Whittaker of C. Whittaker and Co.) married Mary Jane Haworth. Her parents were John Haworth and Jane (nee Tattersall) from Oswaldtwistle. I believe John Haworth's parents were Dennis Haworth (b 1802) and Ellen (nee Grimshaw).
Christopher Whittaker (James's brother) married Catherine Haworth. Catherine's father was also a John Haworth from Oswaldtwistle but his wife was Elizabeth (don't know her maiden name). Catherine Haworth and Mary Jane Haworth may have been related in some way but they were definitely not sisters. Catherine Whittaker was the mother of Norman and Hugh Allen Whittaker. She pre-deceased her husband, Christopher, who later married a Polly Mitchell in 1905 and had two further children, Duncan and Irene.

[Bob Dobson]

There's a book to be written about the various Whittakers and Haworths of Accrington & Ossie. Inter-marrying and combining together in business.The odd fall-out. How they linked up with Haslingden branches and played their parts in various industries and organisations such as the Co-op. At present, there are at least half a dozen people collecting family history data.

[Observer]

Happy to contribute anything I already have researched.

[Bejantine78]

I am related to CJ Whittaker through his wife a HAWORTH of Oswaldtwistle.

IS there any way I could get a copy of the book?

[Bob Dobson]

Originally Posted by Bejantine78

I am related to CJ Whittaker through his wife a HAWORTH of Oswaldtwistle.

IS there any way I could get a copy of the book?

The book has not been written - I meant that there was enough material to write one.

One of the Whittakers patented a method of treating sewerage, and for a while, Accrington was a world leader in this field. Other corporations sent parties to inspect the Copy Nook plant.