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, William & Co of Bolton – (1857 – 1861)
Ashall, Charles – (1848 – 1881)
Ashall, William of Bolton – (1836 – 1853)
Aspinall, Benjamin of Bolton – (1895)
Aspinall, William of Bolton – (1848 – 1861)
Atherton, Stanley 1960 – 2018)
Banks, William – (1878 – 1911)
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 – (1818 – 1851)
Binks, Thomas of Bolton – (1876 – 1895)
Birckley, John Baptist of Bolton – (1881-1895)
Bolton, Watch Repairing Company – (1843 -1889)
Booth, William Bruce(1873 – 1881)
Bradberry, Matthew of Little Bolton – (1821 – 1825)
Bradbury, William of Bolton – (1895)
Bradshaw, Thomas and William – (1855)
Breeze, Richard Henry (1881 – 1901)
Bridge, Thomas, of Bolton (1707 – 1717)
Brown, Joseph
Brown, Michael
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)
Carr, T.
Catterall, Joseph. of Bolton – (1828)
Chadwick, Edward
Chambers, Robert of Little Bolton – (1855)
Chambers, T
Child, Algernon Sidney (1868 – 1886)
Clough, John James of Bolton – (1895)
Clough, John of Bolton – (1895)
Cohen, David
Cranshaw, Esther of Bolton – (1887-1900)
Crinnell, John Westley
Daniels, John H. of Bolton – (1895)
Darby, William
Dawson, H.S. of Bolton – (1895)
Dearden, P
Dickinson
Dorer, Carl
Dunn, (early 19th C Watchmaker
English, Harriett (1819 – 1881)
Entwistle, Richard Holmes (1861)
Entwistle, William Maude (1881)
Fallows, John
Farnworth James
Farnworth, Randolph of Bolton – (1891 – 1913)
Farren, John
Fattorini, T Bolton & Skipton – (1903 – 1975)
Fisher, F
Fisher, James
Foulkes, E.T.
Gilbert, Egerton C (1861 – 1898)
Giles, Albert Thomas (1881 – 1891)
Greenhalgh, S
Greenough, Alfonza (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, George (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, Samuel, (1849 – 1891)
Greenough, S. & Sons of Bolton – (1870 – 1960’s)
Hall, George
Halliwell, Joseph of Bolton – (1895)
Hallsworth, Elisha of Bolton – (1895)
Hesketh, Samuel
Hewitt, M
Hodgkins, Henry P. of Bolton – (1895)
Hodson, George – (1753 – 1827)
Holt, John B.
Hoyle, John
Howarth, Elijah of Bolton – (1891-1922)
Hutchason, William. Bolton-le-Moors. ca.1820
Hutchinson, Henry. (1864)
Ironfield, John
Isherwood, Charlotte & Esther – (1861 – 1873)
Isherwood, Frank of Bolton – (1895)
Isherwood, James of Bolton – (1895)
Isherwood, John of Bolton (1847 – 1881)
Isherwood, John of Bolton (1851 – 1873)
Isherwood, William of Bolton (1858 – 1868)
Jackson, John of Bolton – (1895)
James, W.H. of Bolton – (1895)
John, James
Johnson & Co of Little Bolton (1824 -1825)
Johnson, John of Bolton – (1821-1822)
Jones, Laurence of Bolton – (1895)
Jones, William Stewart of Bolton – (1873 – 1895)
Keell, F. & Co. of Bolton – (1895)
Kerr, Joseph of Bolton – (1853-1855)
Kirkhall, Thomas of Bolton-le-Moors (1673)
Knowles, Thomas, Bolton (1778 – 1787)d.1787. W
Knowles, Andrew of Bolton (1725 – 1771)
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, James (1864)
Lee, John (1782-1789)
Lee, William of Bolton – (1890 – 1915)
Leigh, Thomas. Bolton. an.1781. Watch.
Lloyd, Frederick of Bolton – (1895)
Lumb, Thomas Henry. of Bolton – (1867 – 1905)
Manchester, Thomas of Bolton – (1853 – 1855)
Mather, Abel of Bolton – (1881 – 1905)
Mancor, James of Bolton – (1827 – 1855)
Marsh, William
Mather, Abel
Monk, John of Bolton – (1834 – 1866)
Monk and Gilbert of Bolton (1868 – 1873)
Morris, Levy
Morris, Mary of Bolton (1824-1829)
Morris, Robert of Little Bolton – (1838 – 1843)
Morris, William – (1878 – 1891)
Moss, James
Mowcar, James of Bolton – (1828)
Norris, Carlton – (1936)
Oldham, A & Son of Bolton –
Osborne, Thomas (1665)
Partington, Thomas
Pilkington, Joseph (1860 – 1881)
Pilkington, Thomas (1825 – 1881)
Pilkington, Samuel (1847 – 1881)
Preston, Bernard
Preston, James & Co (1869 – 1905)
Preston’s Of Bolton (1905 – 2016)
Proffitt, James Henry
Reddish, Joseph
Richards, Simon
Royle, John of Bolton – (1738 – 1740)
Shaw, John and Sons Bolton (1875 – 1884)
Shaw, Thomas
Sherwood, John
Simpson,
Sisson, Joshua Bolton – (1861- 1880)
Slater, George James
Smith, Jeremiah
Spencer, Eli of Bolton – (1820 – 1861)
Standfast, William
Standring, Jeremiah of Bolton – (1742-1782)
Taylor, Thomas
Thomas, John
Tritschler, John of Bolton – (1847-1872)
Tyson, Edward
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)
Watts, George
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
Wilding, Thomas
Wilson, Thomas
Winder, Stephen
Wolfenden, Samuel. Bolton (1893 – 1898)
Wood, Edward
Wood, Robert of Bolton – (1853-1855)
Wood, William Junior of Bolton – (1841 -1855)
Wood, William of Bolton – (1853)
Wood, William – (1936)
Woodcock, James Henry (1875 – 1898)
Wright, William. A. (1864)
Young, George