HOLDEN INDEX ENTRIES

[Stanley]

Holden family, Barnoldswick.

Index entries as of 12 November 2004

1851 census
Higher Clough Farm. Alice Holden, 32, HLW De laine [Hand loom weaver. Wool.] John, Son, 26 farm labourer. Richard, 24, son, farm labourer. Alice, 22, HLW Delaine. James, 15, HLW Delaine.

1861 census
Calf Hall. George Holden, head, 35, Mill manager, Burnley. Lucy, wife, 29. William, 13, carder in mill. Blackburn, 6. Edward Maudsley, 3.

1871 census
Copy House. Holden. John. 46, farmer of 11 acres.

1887.
Barrett’s directory for 1887 notes Holden Brothers as manufacturers at Long Ing Shed.

1889
Craven Herald 06/12/1889. Report that Holden Brothers had moved their looms from Long Ing Shed to Calf Hall. CHSC minute books 15/05/1889 confirms this.

1892.
Barlick Local Board rate books note B & M Holden as tenants at Calf Hall Shed. Rates £95 [half year I think]. Other tenants were S Pickles and Windle and Bailey. 1894, same source, B & M Holden tenants £188. [Half year]

1896.
Barrett directory notes Blackburn Holden of B & E M Holden as living at 22 East Hill Street, Barnoldswick. Same address in Barrett for 1902.

c.1900
Edward Holden married the daughter of Oliver ? who took over as engineer at Long Ing Shed c.1900. See 78/AB/04. Page 4.

1902.
Barrett directory notes Blackburn Holden of B & E M Holden as living at Heather View

1903.
I think this was the year they first put looms in Moss Shed.

1912
Manchester Exchange directory notes Holden. B & E M at Calf Hall Shed with 1300 looms.

1915/16
Worrall’s directory notes Holden Brothers at Long Ing Shed with 432 looms.

1932.
CH. [Craven Herald] 22/07/1932. In a report about the clean up after the flood there is a mention that B&M Holden at Calf Hall Shed had given the use of their tape machine to firms who were re-taping warps to clean them. The boss at this time was Edward Holden. See 78/AC/06. Page 2. Edward Holden was brother of Blackburn Holden Jnr and son of Blackburn senior who founded B & M Holden.

1947
78/AC/10. Page 5. Ernie Roberts says that B & M Holden were in Moss Shed with 432 looms. 78/AC/05. Page 7. Ernie Roberts talks about weaving turbans at Holdens at Calf Hall. They had a shuttle loaded with gold wire and put in so many picks of gold wire about every five yards.

1960
Calf Hall Shed Company minutes, 25/02/1960. Resolved that the engine should be stopped and electric motors be installed to run the shafting for G J Sidebotham and Holden Brothers [Bendem]. No definite date for stopping the engine but most likely July holidays 1960.]

Bendem.
Weaving firm formed after the liquidation of the original firm of B & M Holden. See Ernie Roberts [LTP. 78/AC/10] for his opinions about this reorganisation. See LTP. 78/AA/07 for Holdens at Moss Shed. Bendem was the last weaving firm in Barnoldswick when they closed in September 1982 with 60 looms at Wellhouse Mill.

Holden. Blackburn. Senior.
Father of Blackburn Holden, manufacturer. See 78/AG/07 for Newton Pickles talking about his interest in engineering and Newton going with his father to visit Blackburn in his workshop. Evidence that he was well thought of in the town. See 78/AB/05. Page 5. Billy Brooks says that Blackburn Holden lived at Springbank, opposite Bancroft Shed, c.1925?. Report in Craven Herald 28/06/1929 of Blackburn Holden’s Golden Wedding, he was 74. Went into partnership with E M Holden his brother in 1885. [at Clough Mill]. Married at Skipton Registry Office on June 28th 1879 and spent first four years of married life in Blackburn. Mr Holden was born in 1855 in Barnoldswick, son of George Holden. Started manufacturing in 1885 with brother E M Holden and firm was called B & E M Holden. In 1929 they had 250 operatives in Calf Hall and Moss Sheds. His son Blackburn Holden [siblings: Edward, Frank and Rhoda] is working in the family firm and his son is called Blackburn Holden.

Holden. Blackburn [Jnr]
Council member 1916 to 1921. Died Jan 3rd 1946.

Holden. George. [Skipton]
Pigot’s directory for 1834 notes George Holden and Co of Caroline Square as iron and brass founders.

Holden. Matthew.
78/AB/03. Page 8. Billy Brooks says that Matt Holden was the beamer at Coates Shed and taught his wife Elizabeth to beam before he left.

Holden. Michael.
Son of Blackburn Holden Jnr who had a garage in Gisburn and I think lived at Horton House in the 1970s.

Holdens.
See Billy Brooks; LTP, 78/AB/05. page 4. Billy says he thinks Holdens may have started originally in Clough Mill. Seems to be 1885.

Holden. Richard.
LTP. 78/AB/05. Page 19?. Billy Brooks talks about his friend Richard Holden offering him a directorship in Calf Hall Shed Company but Billy couldn’t afford to buy £100 of shares. The land that was bought to build Barnsey Shed [opened June 1912] was tenanted by Richard Holden, when he heard that the farm was for sale he went to Skipton to buy it but met Mark Hacking, one of the Barnsey directors who was on his way back from Skipton after buying the land. Mark told him he was too late, the deal had been done.

Holden. Squire
78/AB/05. Page 22. Billy Brooks account of Squire Holden falling in a cess pit and gaining the nickname ‘Shitten Swimmer’. Barrett 1887 notes him as furniture dealer at 10 Newtown.

1933.
LTP. 78/AC/04, Page 2. Ernie Roberts talks about weaving at Blackburn Holdens with bad warps. His take home pay was two shillings and nine pence for a week. [13 pence]

Loom contraction, sharp practice.
LTP. See 78/AH/14. Page 16 for a conversation between Ernie Roberts and SCG on fraud under the government contraction scheme. Holden Brothers finished under contraction and restarted as Bendem. See 78/AC/14. Page 3 for Ernie Roberts describing how the fraud worked. Under the scheme manufacturers were paid £60 for a working loom and £40 for an empty one. Says Holdens went out under this scheme and restarted as Bendem with same looms.


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