It was James Robinson & Co Limited. They still trade though there offices are now in the ICI/Zeneca/Syngenta building on Leeds Road.

Plus Heywood Williams of Birkby

Mitre Sports who used to be the official suppliers odf Balls to the RFL

TW Broadbent Electrical Contractors who put all the lights on the M62 and put up the new floodlights at Leeds Road

Brook Motors (electric motors) between Lockwood & Longroyd Bridge
Broadbents (textile machinery, I think) just outside town centre
Reliance Gears (gears) Fenay Bridge/Lepton

David Brown Tractors at Meltham was just about the biggest employer in the Huddersfield are in that time. I think that ICI were the biggest followed by DB Tractors and then the rest.

Useless fact No. 23543 - Broadbents made some miniature submarines during World War 2...I suppose it's a bit before the dates you were after though

Also worked on Emley Moor mast (including the one that collapsed) and Dinorwic hydroelectric power station. My father, 2 brothers , uncle & cousin all worked for TWB.

yup, my Gandad worked for them.

Hollidays also were sponsors of one of the oldest RL competitions in the world, the Holliday Cup (which I think is now on display at the George)

ben Shaws a Birkby. Still there but less staff as i now drink less cream soda with my fish and chips



Was there not a big pickle company something like Haywards pickles as well

Ben Shaws is no longer Ben Shaws, Schweppes bought them a few years back and now jut use it for mineral water, Ben Shaws is now made "somewhere else" by a different company, not sure where or who, but I will buy some this weekend just to find out you see (Yellow Lemonade, best pop in the land)

Haywards pickles, by royal appointment no less, on Wakefield Road between moldgreen and aspley.

You can buy Ben Shaws on the special "Local shelves" in Asda.
TBH, the Yellow Lemonade isn't the same; there's something missing. The Cream Soda is though.

I don't think they make it at Birkby/Fartown any more. That factory does spring water now IIRC.

Coincidently, its Shaws pickles isn't it, not Haywards?

And, continuing on the Shaw theme, Bentley Shaw brewery at Lockwood park which then became part of Bass.

Sellers Engineers down Chapel Hill - Textile Machinery.

Thornton & Ross (healthcare & domestic products) Linthwaite
English Drilling Equipment Company (EDECO) Ainley Top

Makers of Transvasin!

It may not smell as nice as Deep Heat but it does a far better job!

Slaithwaite-based yarn spinner Globe Worsted Co Ltd www.slaithwaite.net/page2.html

Slaithwaite-based yarn spinner Globe Worsted Co Ltd www.slaithwaite.net/page2.html

And what about Metrodent on Chancery Lane in the town centre (behind Wheatley Dysons) - makers of false teeth!! (My late dad worked there)

Also numerous mills, such as the one just before Earnshaws bike shop on Manchester Road, Haighs?? (not sure of the name)

Sellers engineers at Longroyd Bridge

Jarratt Pyrah and Armitage where Sainsburys is - the steam engine that powered the place was moved to the side of Tolson Museum after it's last working in 1976.

There was an ice cream makers at the Cavalry Arms junction - Marchinios (?)

remember harold haighs mill on manchester road.

my dad worked at browns in meltham for nearly 30 years, used to love visiting him there.......this thread brings back some memories

Vine Products at Magdale Vinery where they bottled QC sherry & SVW based where Pink Link is now.
I think the Vinery closed in 1989, SVW may have operated from the site for longer.

In construction there was JB Brooke --who built a lot of houses in the west Yorks /Kirklees area(they had a "yard" just beyond the viaduct up Manchester Road ) next to Wimpennys ( another civil engineering firm)
Henry Brooke -down Leeds Road (next to the fast food outlets opposite the Peacock) -who were structural engineers /steel fabricators
plus Mallinsons on Albert Street, Lockwood(Building Contractors )

Milnsbridge/ Longwood/ Slaithwaite was a hot bed of textiles and there were many notable mills in addition to those mentioned previously like
CJ Hirsts / John Crowthers . and James Shires, and Moxons at Kirkburton and Huddersfield Fine Worsteds at Kirkheaton
Most of the mills that have now sadly closed were , as others have said , involved in the manufacture of "fine worsteds"- and known worldwide for some of the best suit and clothing material made anywhere !They upgraded to the latest machinery --the old machinery got refurbished and shipped to the Middle and Far East ---and the rest is history alas!

Haigh. It was next to Harold Haigh.

How about one of the most advertised companies in Huddersfield?

Henry Brook & Co. Ltd.

If you look at many grate / manhole covers in the streets of Huddersfield, the majority used to have the above name on them. Brooks was a foundry on Colne Road and existed for over 150 years until it's demise in 2002. From 1947 it supplied structural steelwork from it's workshop off Leeds Road which Dual Seal Glass now occupy.

all those wise cracks about my age !!

some o you are older than yer make out!!

But they look younger

Thats probably cos they are, Peter Pan!