Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

S. and J. Whitham

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Stephen and Joseph Whitham of Kirkstall, Yorkshire

Maker of stationary engines. [1]

'The manufactory of Messrs. S. and J. Whitham, established in 1790, affords occupation to 120 men, in making machinery of all kinds, mill-work, and implements of every description, both for the home and export trades' [2]

1839 Double beam engine at Hattersley and Co., Leeds (textile spindle makers). Geared to drive underground shaft. Rebuilt as a compound at some point. Photographed by George Watkins in 1937[3]

See Joseph Whitham and Son

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Sources of Information

  1. Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
  2. [1]Online transcription from 'Kirk-Oswald - Knaresborough', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 701-706.
  3. 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000