Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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B. Uncles

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Manhole cover in Bradford-on-Avon
Manhole cover in Bradford-on-Avon
Remains of an Uncles factory chimney, see from Regent's Place, off Trowbridge Road, 2021

B. Uncles & Sons of Bradford-on-Avon, agricultural engineers and ironfounders.

The business was founded by Berkley Uncles, and for a time traded under the Berkley Uncles name. He had been apprenticed to George Milsom of Trowbridge Road, Bradford-on-Avon, agricultural engineers and ironfounders, and he took over and expanded the business. In 1911 he took his sons into partnership. He died in 1937 at the age of 79, leaving a widow, five daughters and three sons.[1]

1889 Berkley Uncles took over the business of George Milsom. Milsom had been in business for 30 years, and Uncles had been with him for 18 years.[2]. Milsom had taken over the Trowbridge Road foundry c.1860, after the death of the previous owner, William Coles.

Photo of Trowbridge Road Works here.


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Sources of Information

  1. Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 24 July 1937
  2. Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 18 April 1889