ben Shaws a Birkby. Still there but less staff as i now drink less cream soda with my fish and chips

Was there not a big pickle company something like Haywards pickles as well

You can buy Ben Shaws on the special "Local shelves" in Asda.
TBH, the Yellow Lemonade isn't the same; there's something missing. The Cream Soda is though.

I don't think they make it at Birkby/Fartown any more. That factory does spring water now IIRC.

Coincidently, its Shaws pickles isn't it, not Haywards?

And, continuing on the Shaw theme, Bentley Shaw brewery at Lockwood park which then became part of Bass.

Sellers Engineers down Chapel Hill - Textile Machinery.

Thornton & Ross (healthcare & domestic products) Linthwaite
English Drilling Equipment Company (EDECO) Ainley Top

Makers of Transvasin!

It may not smell as nice as Deep Heat but it does a far better job!

Slaithwaite-based yarn spinner Globe Worsted Co Ltd www.slaithwaite.net/page2.html

Slaithwaite-based yarn spinner Globe Worsted Co Ltd www.slaithwaite.net/page2.html

And what about Metrodent on Chancery Lane in the town centre (behind Wheatley Dysons) - makers of false teeth!! (My late dad worked there)

Also numerous mills, such as the one just before Earnshaws bike shop on Manchester Road, Haighs?? (not sure of the name)

Sellers engineers at Longroyd Bridge

Jarratt Pyrah and Armitage where Sainsburys is - the steam engine that powered the place was moved to the side of Tolson Museum after it's last working in 1976.

There was an ice cream makers at the Cavalry Arms junction - Marchinios (?)

remember harold haighs mill on manchester road.

my dad worked at browns in meltham for nearly 30 years, used to love visiting him there.......this thread brings back some memories

Vine Products at Magdale Vinery where they bottled QC sherry & SVW based where Pink Link is now.
I think the Vinery closed in 1989, SVW may have operated from the site for longer.

In construction there was JB Brooke --who built a lot of houses in the west Yorks /Kirklees area(they had a "yard" just beyond the viaduct up Manchester Road ) next to Wimpennys ( another civil engineering firm)
Henry Brooke -down Leeds Road (next to the fast food outlets opposite the Peacock) -who were structural engineers /steel fabricators
plus Mallinsons on Albert Street, Lockwood(Building Contractors )

Milnsbridge/ Longwood/ Slaithwaite was a hot bed of textiles and there were many notable mills in addition to those mentioned previously like
CJ Hirsts / John Crowthers . and James Shires, and Moxons at Kirkburton and Huddersfield Fine Worsteds at Kirkheaton
Most of the mills that have now sadly closed were , as others have said , involved in the manufacture of "fine worsteds"- and known worldwide for some of the best suit and clothing material made anywhere !They upgraded to the latest machinery --the old machinery got refurbished and shipped to the Middle and Far East ---and the rest is history alas!

There was another Haigh on MAnchester Road - or was it on the other side of the canal? - called James [?] Haigh. It was next to Harold Haigh.