Cheadle Brass & Copper Co
Other Business Names:
- Patten family
- Patten, Thomas
- Keates, John
- Keates, William
- Oakamoor Works
- Williams, Thomas
- Parys Mine Co
- Bolton, Thomas, & Sons
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Cheadle, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
- Oakamoor, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
- Warrington, Warrington, Cheshire, North West, England
Sectors:
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Basic metals production
Copper & brass smelting
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Metal forging, pressing, stamping, rolling, slitting, etc
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Basic metals production
Wire drawing
Notes:
Traced origins to the Patten family, notably Thomas Patten, who established a copper smelting works at Warrington in the very early 18th century. By around 1730s had developed as an extensive industrial enterprise with smelting mills, wire works, brass foundries, etc, at several locations operating as Cheadle Brass & Copper Co and manufacturing copper and brass wire and sheets, especially for the Birmingham market. Suffered from competition from Thomas Williams of Parys Mine Co and consolidated operations at Alton, Cheadle, and Oakamoor, Staffordshire, around 1800 when continued to be of great importance. 1852 Oakamoor Works acquired by Thomas Bolton & Sons who aimed to make there copper telegraph wire. The Patten family remained important in the business throughout
Publications:
- The order book of the New Wire Company, Cheadle, 1788-1831 by Pendred, Loughnan St L
- William Keates of Cheadle, 1801-1888, and the British copper industry in the nineteenth century by Davies, Kenneth
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Patten family
- Patten, Thomas
- Keates, John
- Keates, William
- Oakamoor Works
- Williams, Thomas
- Parys Mine Co
- Bolton, Thomas, & Sons
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Cheadle, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
- Oakamoor, Staffordshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England
- Warrington, Warrington, Cheshire, North West, England
Sectors:
- Basic metals production Copper & brass smelting
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Metal forging, pressing, stamping, rolling, slitting, etc
- Basic metals production Wire drawing
Notes:
Traced origins to the Patten family, notably Thomas Patten, who established a copper smelting works at Warrington in the very early 18th century. By around 1730s had developed as an extensive industrial enterprise with smelting mills, wire works, brass foundries, etc, at several locations operating as Cheadle Brass & Copper Co and manufacturing copper and brass wire and sheets, especially for the Birmingham market. Suffered from competition from Thomas Williams of Parys Mine Co and consolidated operations at Alton, Cheadle, and Oakamoor, Staffordshire, around 1800 when continued to be of great importance. 1852 Oakamoor Works acquired by Thomas Bolton & Sons who aimed to make there copper telegraph wire. The Patten family remained important in the business throughoutPublications:
- The order book of the New Wire Company, Cheadle, 1788-1831 by Pendred, Loughnan St L
- William Keates of Cheadle, 1801-1888, and the British copper industry in the nineteenth century by Davies, Kenneth