This page gives a comprehensive list of Bolton’s known Clock and Watch makers. Listed alphabetically (with their known working years) it covers Little Bolton, Great Bolton, Halliwell, Astley Bridge, and the other townships comprising the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. We also cover Bolton names from further afield such as Horwich, where their trade mark was ‘Bolton’. Where the name is followed by ‘of Little Bolton‘ or ‘of Great Bolton‘ this is the known trade mark used on their work.
Please click the link to go to the dedicated biography page for each maker.
Agar, John of Bolton – (1853 – 1915)
Agar, John and William (1876-1877)
Agar, William & Co of Bolton – (1857 – 1861)
Arkinstall, Joseph – (1888 – 1914)
Arkwright, Sir Richard (1750 – 1768)
Ashall, Charles – (1848 – 1881)
Ashall, John Robert (1848 – 1875)
Ashall, William of Bolton – (1836 – 1853)
Aspinall, Benjamin of Bolton – (1895-1900)
Aspinall, R (1894)
Aspinall, William of Bolton – (1848 – 1861)
Atherton, Stanley 1960 – 2018)
Bamber, Samuel – (1848 – 1858)
Banks, William – (1878 – 1911)
Barlow, John Thomas – (1876 – 1877)
Barry, Thomas of Ormskirk (1788-1838)
Barry, Thomas of Bolton – (1816 – 1829)
Baynes, Richard of Bolton – (1855 – 1861)
Berrington, Bolton (1843-1851)
Berrington, James of Bolton-le-Moors – (1836 – 1841)
Berrington, John Johnson of Bolton-le-Moors – (1814 – 1851)
Beswick, Thomas Cuthbert – (1881)
Binks, Thomas of Bolton – (1876 – 1895)
Birckley, John Baptist of Bolton – (1881-1911)
Bolton, Watch Repairing Company – (1843 -1889)
Booth, William Bruce(1873 – 1881)
Bradberry, Matthew of Little Bolton – (1821 – 1825)
Bradbury, William of Bolton – (1895)
Bradshaw, Alfred E (1870-1875)
Bradshaw, Thomas and William – (1855)
Breeze, Richard Henry (1881 – 1901)
Bridge, Thomas, of Bolton (1707 – 1717)
Bridge, Thomas of Wigan 1717-1745
Burghart, Augustin (1834 – 1848)
Burnett, Thomas of Bolton – (1894 – 1895)
Butler, Jacob of Bolton-le-Moors – (1805 – 1818)
Butler, James of Bolton-le-Moors – (1760 – 1795)
Butler Bolton, Mrs. (1818-1824)
Carwin, J (1874)
Catterall, Joseph. of Bolton – (1828)
Chambers, Robert of Little Bolton – (1855-1876)
Chambers, Thomas (1851 – 1861)
Child, Algernon Sidney (1868 – 1886)
Clough, John James of Bolton – (1895)
Clough, John of Bolton – (1895)
Cranshaw, Esther of Bolton – (1887-1900)
Crinnell, John Wesley (1890 – 1913)
Daniels, John H. of Bolton – (1895)
Dawson, H.S. of Bolton – (1895)
Draper, James Thomas (1861-1899) (review)
Dunn, (early 19th C Watchmaker)
English, Harriett (1819 – 1881)
Entwistle, J (1890-1891)
Entwistle, Richard Holmes (1861-1919)
Entwistle, William Gleave (1835)
Entwistle, William Maude (1881-1891)
Erin, 1892 – 1893)
Farnworth, Randolph of Bolton – (1891 – 1913)
Fattorini, T Bolton & Skipton – (1903 – 1975)
Field, J (1892 – 1893)
Fisher, F (1898-1900)
Foulkes, Edward T. (1885-1891)
Gilbert, Egerton C (1861 – 1898)
Giles, Albert Thomas (1881 – 1891)
Glendinning, Roger John (1879)
Greenhalgh, Jos Market St Farnworth (1869)
Greenhalgh, Richard William(1930)
Greenhalgh, S (1874)
Greenough, Alfonza (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, George (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, Samuel, (1849 – 1891)
Greenough, S. & Sons of Bolton – (1870 – 1960’s)
Grundy, R (1892 – 1893)
Halliwell, Joseph of Bolton – (1887-1900)
Halliwell, Richard of Little Bolton – (1863-1911)
Hallsworth, Elisha
Hardman, Joseph Thomas (1891-1948)
Hargreaves, T. (1898 – 1900)
Hayhurst, W (1898 – 1900)
Hodgkins, Henry Phillips of Bolton – (1876-1895)
Hodkinson, P. (1893)
Hodson, George – (1753 – 1827)
Horton and Arkinstall (1901-1914)
Howarth, Elijah of Bolton – (1891-1922)
Hunt, Fredrick Augustus Watchmaker (1897)
Hunt, Frederick William (1870 – 1900)
Hutchason, William. Bolton-le-Moors. ca.1820
Hutchinson, Henry. (1861 – 1865)
Isherwood, Charlotte (1861-1873)
Isherwood, Charlotte & Esther – (1861 – 1873)
Isherwood, Miss Esther (1841-1881)
Isherwood, Frank of Bolton – (1895)
Isherwood, James of Bolton – (1895)
Isherwood, John of Bolton (1847 – 1881)
Isherwood, John of Bolton (1847 – 1873)
Isherwood, William of Bolton (1858 – 1869)
Jackson, John of Bolton (1711 -1755)
Jackson, John of Bolton – (1881-1901)
James, W.H. of Bolton – (1895)
John, James
Johnson & Co of Little Bolton (1824 -1825)
Johnson, John of Bolton – (1821-1823)
Johnson, William Henry Watchmaker (1869-1875)
Jones, Laurence of Bolton – (1895)
Jones, William Stewart of Bolton, (1869 – 1895)
Keell, F. & Co. of Bolton – (1895)
Kerr, Joseph of Bolton – (1851 – 1855)
Kirkhall, Thomas of Bolton-le-Moors (1673)
Knowles, Andrew of Bolton (1725 – 1771)
Knowles, Thomas, Bolton (1778 – 1787)
Knowles and Bridge, Bolton (18th Century)
Lanzetter, David Leon (1911- 1963)
Lanzetter, Jacob Kofko (1902 – 1940)
Lee, Henry of Bolton – (1843 -1853)
Lee, Henry & Son – (1853 – 1895).
Lee, John (1782-1789)
Lee, William of Bolton – (1890 – 1915)
Lloyd, Frederick of Bolton – (1895)
Lumb, Thomas Henry. of Bolton – (1867 – 1905)
Manchester, Thomas of Bolton – (1799 – 1870)
Mancor, James of Bolton – (1827 – 1858)
Marsh, William
Mather, Abel of Bolton – (1881 – 1905)
Monk, John of Bolton – (1834 – 1866)
Monk and Gilbert of Bolton (1868 – 1873)
Morris, Mary of Bolton (1823-1829)
Morris, Robert of Little Bolton – (1838 – 1843)
Morris, William – (1878 – 1891)
Mowcar, James of Bolton – (1828)
Murray, William – (1890) 148 Market St. Farnworth
Oldham, A & Son of Bolton –
Pilkington, Joseph (1860 – 1881)
Pilkington, Thomas (1825 – 1881)
Pilkington, Samuel (1847 – 1881)
Pinder, Edward Stanley (1901 – 1939)
Preston, James & Co (1869 – 1905)
Preston, Joseph John Jarthon (1901-1911)
Preston’s Of Bolton (1905 – 2016)
Proffitt, James Henry (1871-1939)
Profitt, William Henry (1891-1921)
Rider, Wiliam 1790 Watchmaker Farnworth
Royle, John of Bolton – (1738 – 1760)
Shaw, John and Sons Bolton (1875 – 1884)
Sherwood, John (1853) 12 Newport St
Sherwood, W. 1864 Newport St
Simpson,
Sisson, Joshua Bolton – (1861- 1880)
Slater, George James
Smith, Jeremiah 1876 133 Derby st
Spencer, Eli of Bolton – (1820 – 1861)
Standring, Jeremiah of Bolton – (1742-1782)
Taylor, Thomas
Thomas, John
Tritschler, John of Bolton – (1847-1872)
Tyson, Thomas of Bolton – (1848-1861)
Waddington, James Henry
Walker, Michael of Bolton – (1805 – 1824)
Walker, Richard Henry ( 1883-1921)
Walley, John de Bolton (-1730)
Wallier, Micht of Bolton (Unknown)
Warburton, Henry of Bolton – (1722 – 1774)
Waddington, John Cheapside, Farnworth( 1869)
Watts, George(1861-1894) (review)
West, George of Bolton (1814-1881)
West, James of Bolton – (1828 – 1855)
West, William of Bolton – (1828)
Whaley, John of Bolton – (1722)
Whitefield, George
Wightman, James W
Wilburn, George
Wilding, Thomas
Wilson, Thomas
Winder, Stephen
Wolfenden, Samuel. Bolton (1893 – 1898)
Wood, Edward 1871 52 St Hellen’s Rd
Wood, Heaton Thomas (1891-1910)
Wood, Robert of Bolton – (1853-1864)
Wood, William Junior of Bolton – (1841 -1855)
Wood, William of Bolton – (1853 – 1855)
Woodcock, James Henry (1875 – 1898)
Wright, William. A. (1864-1865)
Young, Richard (possibly not)
Young, George