BAILEY INDEX ENTRIES

[Stanley]

BAILEY INDEX ENTRIES AS OF 14 December 2006

c.1760
Land on which James Hartley paid land tax was described as ‘Bailey’s Lands’.

1822.
Baines’ directory for 1822 records Mary Bailey as victualler at the White Lion Inn, Earby.

1848
William Bailey is described as a tenter at Clough Mill in 1848 by William Atkinson in ‘Old barlick’. He gave Atkinson the information about the old wooden looms.

1851 census
Edward Bailey, 30, labourer and Sarah, wife, 28 both at Moor Gate Farm.

1851 census
Stephen Bailey of Coates, 32, HLW wool. Rachel, wife, 32, ditto. John, 5 years and James, 2 years.

1851 census
John Bailey, head, 58, grocer of Jepp Hill. Alice, wife, 49. Mary A., 9 years. Lewis, 3. Wright William, son, 13, factory hand.

1871 census
Henry Bailey of Planting House, Townhead, Barnoldswick, 20, oat cake dealer. 1881 census Henry Bailey, 30 of Townhead. Elizabeth, 30. Albert, 10. Ernest, 3. Mary Elizabeth, 1 year. 1891 census: Henry Bailey, 40 of Townhead. Elizabeth, 40. Albert, 20. Ernest, 13. Mary Elizabeth, 11. Annie, 5 months.

1871 census.
Henry Bailey, 31, greengrocer, Jepp Hill, Barnoldswick.

1871 census
Richard Bailey of Mitchell Terrace, 38, overlooker.

1871 census
William Bailey of Wellhouse Cottages, 33, cotton jobber.

1871 census
William Bailey of Townhead, 47, oat cake baker.

1881 census
Prospect Terrace Barnoldswick. Bailey Richard, 48. Ann, 47. Bailey Ann, 34. Richard, 36. Richard Edgar, 4.

1885
CH. 24/05/1935. Early in 1885 Mr. Gill bought a plot of land in Ireland Meadow, Earby, where he proceeded to erect a substantial weaving shed of 600 looms, with a two-storey warehouse, which was named Grove Shed. The first tenants were Messrs. James Clegg and Henry Parkinson, and they commenced with about 300 looms. The partners in the concern came
from the Nelson district and had preciously been Connected with the cotton industry, The firm introduced higher grades of cloth than had been previously been woven in the district, and the coming of the firm into the village was a great boon to the weavers. The other part of Grove Shed was taken over by a new firm, the three partners being Messrs. James S. Watson. Chas. W. Bailey and William N. Berry, and the firm were manufacturers of high class coloured goods. Mr. Watson had been the weaving manager at Sough Bridge Mill, and
Mr. Berry had been associated with the designing department at Dotcliffe Mill, Kelbrook. About ten years later important developments took place, when Messrs. Bailey. Watson and Berry, removed to a new shed, Spring Mill, which had been erected in Stoneybank Lane by Mr. John Bailey. This shed was also enlarged to hold 600 looms, with provision for further extension.

1887
Barrett directory. John Bailey, greengrocer, 1a King Street. [in 1896 Barrett, John Bailey of 1 King Street is reported as a yeast dealer.]

1887
Barrett directory records Richard Bailey, overlooker as living at 35 Prospect Terrace in Barnoldswick. Ditto for 1896 gives address as 5 Essex Street. Ditto for 1902 gives address as 10 Shaw Terrace.

1888
CH. 20/10/1888. Report that R(ichard?) Bailey was a member of the committee which treated with the Trustees of the Bethesda Chapel in Barnoldswick for land behind Butts Mill. [This would be what was formerly known as The Parrock]

1889
CH. 24/05/1935. When the fortunes of the village were at their lowest ebb, in 1889 the Grove Shed being the only place of employment running successfully, efforts were made to start a new shed company. Mr. John Bailey [b. 1819 at Bawhead] and members of his family took a leading part in this enterprise, and when a public meeting was held in the Victoria Institute to solicit and organise public support, Mr. Thomas Bailey was elected to the chair, and his son Mr. C.W.
Bailey, was appointed secretary, pro tem. Within a few weeks time encouraging support was forthcoming and the contracts were placed for the erection of a shed in a field belonging to Mr. John Bailey, on the opposite side of the road to the Victoria Mills, but over the Seal Bridge, at the entrance to the village from the Skipton and Colne highway. The shed was completed and ready for occupation the following year, and the directors arranged with
Messrs. Henry Bracewell and Son, of Airebank Mills, Gargrave, to be the first tenants. This firm also re-started Bracewell’s original "Old Shed," and removed their looms from Rawtenstall for the furnishing of the new Albion Shed. They were now providing full employment for 1,300 looms.

c.1890
LTP. 78/AB/05. Page 12. Billy Brooks says he used to be sent to Jacob Bailey’s shop for a penny worth of sand to put on the floor for weekend.

1891 census
35 Railway Terrace, Rainhall Road. Ann Bailey, 58. Ann Bailey, 42. Edgar, 14. Richard, 57. Richard, 46.

1892
Bailey and Barrett are mentioned as tenants in Wellhouse Mill in the Local Board Rate books.

1896.
Barrett directory notes Christopher Bailey as grocer, draper and house furnisher of Kelbrook. (1881 census records C Bailey, 17, Elizabeth, 55 and Hannah, 22 living on Dotcliffe at Kelbrook. 1891 census: Christopher Bailey, 27, Elizabeth 66 and Hannah 31 on Salisbury Terrace(?).

1896
Barrett directory reports Wright William Bailey as painter and decorator of 1 Essex Street.

1896
Barrett directory reports Harrison Bailey as foreman joiner of Henry Street, Barnoldswick. Calf Hall Shed Company minutes for 1899 and 1901 record him as qualified to act as a director of the company. [He had enough shares]

1896
Barrett directory reports Henry Bailey of Gladstone Terrace, Earby as Taper.

1896
Barrett directory reports Richard Bailey as ‘dresser’ and living at 35 Rainhall Road [is this Prospect Terrace?] Same address in 1890 election but described as tackler.

1896
Robert Edward Bailey reported as greengrocer of Green Street in Barrett directory. In 1902 Barrett he seems to be grocer of Albert Road.

1896
Barrett directory reports William Bailey [of Windle and Bailey?] as resident at Monks House Barnoldswick.

1902
Barrett directory records Mrs Ann Bailey as living at 43 Rainhall Road.

1902
Barrett directory reports Thomas Bailey as painter of 1 Essex Street.

1903
CH. 24/05/1935. reported that in 1935 the partnership at Spring Mill of Bailey, Watson and Berry was dissolved. Mr Watson went to Victoria Mill and started James Watson and Sons. Spring Mill was divided into two parts, W N Berry and Sons using one part for coloured goods. Mr C W Bailey went into partnership with Charles Watson and Mr W E Gaunt and established C W Bailey Ltd. In about 1930 Berry’s moved to a new shed at Foulridge under the control of Irving Berry, son of Mr W N Berry.

1912
M/c Royal Exchange directory records Bailey and Roberts as tenants at Wellhouse Mill with 192 looms. They seem to have sold all their equipment to Thomas Nutter in 1911 so the M/c Exchange entry may be out of date.

1915, 1916, 1920, 1921.
Worrall’s Directory records Bailey and Roberts as Barnsey Shed tenants. In 1912 they were in Wellhouse.

1923
Entry in the CHSC minute books to the effect that W F Suthers and Sons were to take over the space formerly occupied by William Bailey (Barnoldswick) Ltd who had gone into liquidation. At the time of liquidation they appear to have had 576 looms, 160 sold to Suthers by Edward Wood (liquidator0 and remaining 416 looms to Wellhouse Manufacturing Company.

1929
CH 29/11/1929. John Bailey was born in 1819 at Bawhead, between Earby and Kelbrook. He was the son of Miles Bailey. The family moved to cottages on Stoneybank, Earby, called 'The Midge Hole’ where they supported themselves by handloom weaving. John wound bobbins when he was four years old and as soon as he was big enough carried cloth to Colne and yarn back. John Married Alice Turner and they lived at Birke Hall. They moved to
Hodge Syke, Mill Brow and started a business as grocer and general dealer on Stoneybank. Then he built his own premises on Water Street in 1860 and at that time it was the first building on the central part of the street. He challenged the supremacy of the Bracewell family and they cut off the water to his house and premises. He was one of the instigators of the Earby Shed Company and the building of Albion Shed in 1890. The mill was built on
Selcroft (Seal Croft) part of School Farm which he bought. Supported by John Bailey, members of the family started manufacturing with 150 looms at Grove Shed. the firm was Bailey, Watson and Berry. In 1896, Mr Bailey built Spring Mill. Mr. Irving Berry bought a shed at Foulridge and Spring Mill is in the control of C W Bailey Ltd.

1930
CH. 24/01/1930. In a report on the death of William Wilkinson it is noted that A Bailey (Earby Shed Company) was present at the funeral. (The Bailey family built Spring Terrace on Stoneybank Road Earby as housing for their relations in connection with Spring Mill.

1930
CH. 16/05/1930. Report of an interview with Thomas Whitehead of' Philadelphia, USA, brother in law of T Bailey, decorator of Essex Street. Born in Kendal. His parents died when he was young and he was sent to Barlick to live with his grandfather Richard Fishwick who was a friend of Nathan Robinson so he was sent to his school at Butts Top. He moved to the Brick School in Rainhall Road and left at age of 12 to work half time for Thomas Bracewell at New Mill (Later known as Wellhouse) He worked full time at Clough Mill and Long Ing and at 18 went weaving at Burnley. He migrated to Fall River, Mass. [could this have been in early 1860s, the Cotton Famine?] and ran ten looms there. He then moved to Boston where he met his wife who was from Bradford Yorkshire and connected with woollen manufacturing. He now (1930) has his own company, the Lincoln Worsted Company, in Philadelphia. He says that trade is not good in America but better than in England. His weavers are paid £6 a week and his warpers and overlookers £ 10. There is no social security.

c.1930
LTP. 78/AB/05. Page 4. Billy Brooks talks about tacklers starting their own firms. He cites William Bailey as one of these.

1932
CH 22/07/1932. Report of the death of Richard Bailey 73 of 10 Park Road Barnoldswick. Before retiring in 1920 Richard was a partner in the manufacturing firm of Bailey and Roberts which he helped found at Barnsey Shed. (in 1881 census Richard Bailey, 21 was living at Newtown, Barnoldswick. In 1891 aged 31 he was living at 5 Essex Street with Jane, 31. Mary, 2 and Thomas 6 years.)

1932
CH 29/07/1932. In a report of a mass meeting held by the unions at the Empire Cinema in Earby it was reported that C W Bailey of Spring Mill had been forced to follow the example of the other manufacturers and retreat from the More Looms System.

1937
BET. 12/11/1937. Report of the death of David Nutter at Rydal Mount Barnoldswick aged 73. Born in 1867 he started in cotton in 1912 with Bailey and Roberts at Barnsey shed and in 1932 this firm changed its name to W E and D Nutter Ltd.

1938
CH. 01/07/1938. Mentions School Fields Farm which was at one time owned by John Bailey.

c.1950
LTP. 78/AH/15. Page 3. Fred Inman talks about a man Called Varley
who used to live in the Mount at Earby. He told Parkinson Inman
and Fred that he had concentrated and it was the best thing he had ever done. He had 100 looms in Blackburn and he was being paud for 200 by the government for orders they supplied. He finished and retired to Embsay. Fred talks about Speaks and Booths at Spring Mill and says they were Bailey’s then. [Worrall's, C W Bailey. Spring Mill, 548 looms] Fred says Booth and Speak first bought Shuttleworths at Victoria, they shut that when they bought Spring Mill. Then they bought Dotcliffe, sold that for engineering and moved from there to Albion Shed. They scrapped there and went out.

1952
Bailey. CW, Spring Mill, Earby. Barrit. J W Ltd, Grove Mill. Birley. A J, Albion Mill. Earby, Manufacturing Company Ltd., Earby, Hartley Wiltex, Brook Shed, Earby. Johnson's Fabrics Ltd, Victoria Mill, Earby, Shuttleworth Charles and
Co Ltd, Victoria Mill, Earby, Slater. S Ltd., Salterforth Shed. Watson A and Co. Ltd, Brook Shed, Earby.
[All from Manchester Exchange Directory 1952.]

c.1954
Bailey’s of Barnoldswick [electrical contractors] installed the 400Kva alternator at Wellhouse Mill.

1959
Bob King reported in 2005 that A Speak and Company of Manchester bought C W Bailey, Spring Mill.

2003
Jim Bailey of Colne rang me June 2 2003 and told me that his mother, Margaret Reeve married James Marginson Bailey, and they lived in a cottage at the bottom of Salterforth Lane on the inside [east] of the sharp corner at the bottom of Burdock Hill. Margaret Reeve's brother, Jim Reeve was a
stonemason at Sagar's Quarry when Jack Platt worked there. Jim had a
relation called Jack Sagar who was James Rushton’s second in command in the Barnoldswick Communist Party. After the troubles in 1932 h lost his job as a weaver because he was blacklisted. He started working as a gardener and eventually got a job as a paint sprayer at Bristol Tractors when they moved into Sough Bridge in 1945. Jim worked at Bristol Tractors as well for a time.

SCG/14 December 2006