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 173,102 pages of information and 249,768 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co

From Graces Guide

of Barnsley, Colliery Proprietors

1888 Incorporated as a Limited Company.

1914 Directors: Jacob Higson, C.E. (Chairman), T. A. Higson, H. Baker, F. A. Scott. Secretary: T. Williamson. Specialities: House, Gas and Steam Coal, splendid seams of Silkstone and Flockton Coal. Business largely developed and great improvements made during the past few years.

By 1929 Amalgamated with Newton-Chambers[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 17, 1929