Catalogue description Records of the Horseley-Piggott Group

This record is held by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

Details of D1288
Reference: D1288
Title: Records of the Horseley-Piggott Group
Date: 1845-1968
Arrangement:

The Horseley-Piggott documents deposited include:-

 

A. Records of Thomas Piggott and Co. Ltd.

 

B. Records of Horseley Bridge and Engineering Co.

 

C. Records of Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Ltd.

 

D. Records of companies taken over by Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Ltd.

 

E. Miscellaneous

 

D3142. Plans by Wm Dempsey of Westminster

 

D4442, D4523, D5505 - John Thompson Ltd., Wolverhampton.

 

D4469, D4819, D5150 - Horseley - Piggot Ltd.

 

D5172 - Horseley Company Ltd., and its successors.

 

D4442, D4523, D5505 - John Thompson Ltd., Wolverhampton.

 

D4469, D4819, D5150 - Horseley - Piggott Ltd.

 

D5172 - Horseley Company Ltd., and its Successors.
Held by: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Horseley-Piggott Group, Tipton, Staffordshire, West Midlands, engineering
Physical description: 13 Sub-fonds
Access conditions:

All documents, other than photographs and printed material, closed less than 50 years ago, are not available for public inspection
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Horseley-Piggott Group, Clarke Chapman-Thompson Ltd, of Tipton
Subjects:
  • Tipton, Staffordshire
  • Manufacturing industry
Administrative / biographical background:

Horseley Bridge and Engineering Company, of Tipton, amalgamated with Thomas Piggott and Company Limited of Birmingham, in 1933, and the records cover both the parent firms as well as the combined firm.

 

Horseley Bridge originated as the mining company of Dixon, Amphlett and Bedford, in 1792. Iron furnaces were built in 1808 and 1809. Aaron Manby joined the firm in 1813 and developed the engineering side and the company built the first iron steamship, 'Aaron Manby', in 1822 and the Galton Canal Bridge at Smethwick for Telford in 1829. Under Isaac Dodds, the firm built locomotive engines, and in the course of the nineteenth century diversified into steel building of various types. The firm of P. D. Bennett, of Spon Lane Iron Works was taken over in 1878.

 

Thomas Piggott and Company was founded in 1822, and built iron canal barges. During the century they diversified into gas plant, particularly gasholders, lifeboats, piping, especially for waterworks, and pressed steel tanks.

 

The amalgamation of 1933 was followed by the transference of the Piggott works to Tipton. Among later works may be mentioned Lamella roofing and in particular the Dome of Discovery for the Festival of Britain, 1951.
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