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Originally Posted by rivetlad

A little smattering of info on F. Steiner here:In 1835 the Church Bank Printworks was bought by F Steiner
(Hogg 1971, 83), and by the 1840s it had been divided into three portions; a printworks
leased back to the Peels, a chemical works run by James Haworth & Sons, and a Turkey
Red dyeworks operated by Steiner himself (Rothwell 1993, 10). In 1851 it employed 450
people (Rothwell 1980a, 4). Steiner had taken the whole of the Church Bank works back
into his hands by 1860, and major extensions were made in the 1870s and 1880s. By this
time they were covering the whole range of Turkey Red dying, bleaching and calico printing
and in 1896 they took over the Foxhill Bank Printworks which also now contained a
dyeworks and a bleachworks. The firm remained successful until the 1920s but went into
voluntary liquidation in the 1950s (Rothwell 1993,10). Church Bank works was demolished
in the 1950s and redeveloped (Rothwell 1980a, 4), Foxhill Bank was still in use as a
bleachworks until 1958 but was cleared in the late 1970s (Rothwell 1980b, 3).

My Grandfather was a member of the fire brigade for many years at steiner's, worked there for most of his working life, he retired about the same time the works closed