Bold Venture Lime Company

[maxthecollie]

I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have any info on the above Company. My wife's grandfather is on the photo and we have no information about it.
old photo.jpg

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have any info on the above Company. My wife's grandfather is on the photo and we have no information about it.
Attachment 35180

Bold Venture Farm at Altham Frank ????

[maxthecollie]

No it seems to be a predecessor of Ribble Cement

[gpick24]

Was it in Chatburn?
Owned by this guy -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_Robinson

[gpick24]

"Dixon Robinson (1795-1878) Honour of Clitheroe, Blackburn Lawyer and major landowner / employer of Clitheroe and Chatburn. Built the Pendle Hotel. Owned the Chatburn Horrocksford Lime Co, Bold Venture Kiln, Limeworks and Quarry from 1837 to his death in 1878. Lived at Clitheroe Castle."
Copied from here -
Clitheroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[maxthecollie]

Thanks Dave that's a start

[susie123]

I would say the photo is 1940s judging by the lady's outfit.

[maxthecollie]

Christine's grandfather is third from left and we want to know if anyone else has any relatives on there. Her grandparents both passed away in the 1970's and she has been left all this from her mother who passed away in 2002. We have just got around to trying to find out anything we can about were he worked . I have sent a copy to the Clitheroe Advertiser and Castle Cement to see if they can shed any light on it.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by susie123

I would say the photo is 1940s judging by the lady's outfit.

Have you factored in that the Ribble Valley is at least 10 years behind us here in Accy Susie?

Welcome back btw

[gpick24]

"In the late 1930's, the Horrocksford Lime Co Ltd at Clitheroe, Lancs became an associated company of Ribblesdale Cement. This company produced dry, tarred and bitumous limestone, cold asphalt and ground limestone. In later years the Horrocksford Lime Co amalgamated with the adjacent Bold Venture Lime Co Ltd which was a quarry owner and later became a supplier of dry limestone and other products produced by Horrocksford Cement Co Ltd."
Copied from here -
The National Archives | Access to Archives

Name changed to castle cement in 1990 -
CASTLE CEMENT (CHATBURN) LIMITED. Free business summary taken from official Companies House information. Free Alerts.

[hoverman]

To set the record straight, Bold Venture Lime works was first opened in 1780 with small kilns. later bought by the Dixon Family who built new kilns and ran it until the mid 1940s. It operated 4 lime kilns and 1 gas retort. Up until 1924 It supplied Chatburn Village with gas. The new kilns were built alongside the railway and are still there today, except they are bricked up for safety. In the 1940s the demand for lime was going down and the kilns were in need of major repairs. New gas fired kilns were the up and coming thing. So lime burning ceased.
Horrocksford Lime Co. Which was started in 1899 on Horocksford Hall land(the top side of Castle Cement Works by the level crossing).in Clitheroe. It built a new works and plant in Bold Venture Quarry Chatburn in 1948. It produced Tarmac and dry stone chippings. In the 70s it became part of a company that also owned Ribble Cement. The works closed in the 1990s and is completely gone, even the ground where it stood has been quarried away. The office in the picture was in,1860s the station Masters house when the that was the end of the line. Later extended to Hellifield. Email me for Picture of The new 1948 Horocksford works and Picture of Bold Venture lime workers with all the names of people included. G.T.

[Bob Dobson]

There may be summat on the company in Mike Rothwell's book on the Industrial Heritage of the Ribble Valley. The library will have a copy

[Gordon Booth]

That caught my eye- Dixon Robinson lived at Clitheroe Castle!
I thought it had been a ruin since the Civil War. Can't find anything else on people living there.

[hoverman]

Clitheroe castle was bought by the people of Clitheroe in 1920 as a war memorial. The house was used as council offices. Now its a museum.

[maxthecollie]

zzzzzz.jpg

Thanks to Hoverman for this info