Talk:Edward Akroyd

message: I'd take mild issue with the suggestion that Akroyd's only remaining edifices are Bankfield Museum and a fraction of Copley. 
Edward and his brother, Henry, acceded to the ownership of James Akroyd and Sons upon the death of their father, Jonathan Akroyd, in 1847. Henry passed over any management involvement a few years later and Edward is generally viewed as the man who turned the company into one of the world's leading worsted manufacturers - Copley, as the article suggests, being one of the earliest instances of a 'model factory village' that duly inspired Titus Salt to build Saltaire.
Up until a few months before Jonathan Akroyd's death, however, the building responsible for the bulk of the company's output was Bowling Dyke Mill, just to the West of Halifax's 'North Bridge'. This burned down in 1847 and it fell to Edward and Henry to reconstruct it. The 6-storey building was a pre-eminent example of a 'fireproof mill' and was reportedly widely admired and visited by interested parties. 
'James Akroyd and Sons' went into liquidation in 1891 and Bowling Dyke Mill was eventually acquired by a holding company, The Bowling Dyke Estates Co. Ltd.. John Crossley and Sons Ltd. (whose huge carpet mill abutted the site) acquired the mill in 1961 and it was duly past on as part of the site purchased by the present owners, Dean Clough Ltd, in 1983. 
Bowling Mill (as it is now called) survives intact to this day; a substantial presence in fine condition, occupied in large part by a division of Royal and Sun Alliance.
(All facts drawn from a report commissioned by Dean Clough Ltd from Structural Perspectives Ltd, 1st June 2009).
95.148.117.91 (talk) 19:24, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
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