Hindsford Foundry
of Tyldesley, Lancs
1857 Advertising as William Lewis and Sons, iron and brass founders, makers of stoves, kitchen ranges, thrashing machines, etc.[1]
1873 Advertising as Lewis and Owen.
1886 24 ft long cast iron girder weighing 4-5 tons was made for Monk and Newall, one of several for a new branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. It was cast under the superintendence of Arthur Kiveton, foreman to Daniel Owen.[2]
1900 Trading as James Burton and Sons.
1923 ACCIDENTALLY ELECTROCUTED. An inquest was held Richard Pearson, married, a moulder at Hindsford Foundry, Lancashire, who was electrocuted whilst holding a ladle of molten metal driven from an electric crane. Two other men escaped with shock. The jury’s verdict was that Pearson was accidentally electrocuted through a defective crane.[3]