Kilvington, Ben, & Co

Sectors:

  • Distribution - retailing Ironmongery, tools, holloware, hardware, etc, retailing
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Wire products inc rope manufacture

Notes:

Traced origins to 1838 when established by George Kilvington, 1817-90. By 1867 described as an ornamental iron and wireworker making wide range of goods - garden furniture, netting, fencing, cages, blinds, avaries, etc. Developed as hardware retailers but in 1980s still making specialist wire products. Always small scale manufacturer operating in central York

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