Joseph Whitham and Son
Iron manufacturers of Perseverance Works, Kirkstall Road, Leeds.
See Joseph Whitham
One of the first manufacturers in Leeds to make processing machinery for the leather trade.[1]
Maker of stationary engines. [2]
1839 25 HP beam engine supplied to Kirkstall Forge Co to drive a 14" mill, guide mill, helve hammer and water pump. It served until 1921 [3]
c.1840 Thomas Greenwood worked at the Perseverance Works for a short time.
1861 Leather machinery available consisted of bark mills, leather rolling mills and splitting machines.[4]
1873 Two beam engines for Nottingham Waterworks, Bestwood Pumping Station. Photographed by George Watkins in 1935. Note: G Watkins refers to the maker as Joseph Whitham & Co., but the nameplate in the photograph says 'Joseph Whitham & Sons' [5]
1876 Members of the Iron and Steel Institute visited their ironworks [6]
1885 Advert for sale of works and machinery[7]
1885 Greenwood and Batley branched out into Flour and Oil Milling Machinery by acquiring the business of Joseph Whitham and Son of the Perseverance Iron Works, Kirkstall Road, Leeds
A Whitham winch is preserved at Papplewick Pumping Station[8]
See here [9] for more information.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Early Leather Trades' Engineers of Leeds, Part III. Joseph Hall and Co by T. Lyons
- ↑ Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
- ↑ 'The History of Kirkstall Forge Through Seven Centuries 1200 - 1945 A.D.' Note: The book refers to Joseph Witham & Co, which is assumed to be a spelling mistake
- ↑ Measom. The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway (1861) p. 446.
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Volume 5: The North Midlands', by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd
- ↑ The Engineer of 15th August 1876 p180
- ↑ Newcastle Journal - Monday 16 March 1885
- ↑ 'Old Glory' magazine, June 2012
- ↑ [1] Leeds Engine website - A Brief History of the Whitham Family Companies