Lancashire Tool Company

Thought to be staff from The Lancashire Tool Company which originally started in an old fustian workshop behind The Star Inn in Statham.  Then during the First World War, this  moved to Booths Hill Rd. The business produced pliers and other small tools which were used mainly for telegraph maintenance work.  Many of the women workers were poached from the gold beating works as the wages were better. The Company always had a good football team, winning many trophies.