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)
Arkinstall, Joseph Edward -(1901-1917)
Arkwright, Sir Richard (1750 – 1768)
Ashall, Charles – (1848 – 1881)
Ashall, John Robert (1848 – 1875)
Ashall, William of Bolton – (1836 – 1853)
Ashton, Richard of Farnworth (1861)
Aspinall, Benjamin of Bolton – (1895-1900)
Aspinall, R (1894)
Aspinall, William of Bolton – (1848 – 1861)
Atherton, Stanley of Horwich 1960 – 2018)
Bamber, Samuel – (1848 – 1858)
Banks, William – (1878 – 1911)
Banks, William of Turton (1878-1911)
Barlow, John Thomas – (1876 – 1877)
Barnetts, Market Street Farnworth (watch Key image)
Barrow, Robert of Farnworth (1839 – 1861)
Barry, John of Ratcliff Bridge (1811-1841)
Barry, Thomas of Ormskirk (1788-1838)
Barry, Thomas of Bolton – (1816 – 1829)
Baynes, Richard of Bolton – (1855 – 1861)
Beesley, Daniel of Radcliffe Bridge (1878-1888)
Beesley, James of Farnworth (1861)
Bennet, Samuel of Bolton (TBC)
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)
Bevington, James of Farnworth (1814-1838)
Binks, Thomas of Bolton – (1876 – 1895)
Birckley, John Baptist of Bolton – (1881-1911)
Blackledge, Thomas (1834-1888)
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)
Bradshaw, William (1871 – 1881)
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)
Burrow(s), Charles Wentworth (1891-1904)
Butler, Jacob of Bolton-le-Moors – (1805 – 1818)
Butler, James of Bolton-le-Moors – (1760 – 1795)
Butler Bolton, Mrs. (1818-1824)
Byron, William of Farnworth (1855)
Cary, George Albert (1881-1935)
Cary & Son, Bolton and Farnworth (1880-1935)
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 – (1887-1903)
Crinnell, John Wesley (1890 – 1913)
Crowther, Eli of Astley Bridge (1871 – 1899)
Daniels, John H. of Bolton – (1895)
Dawson, H.S. of Bolton – (1895)
Draper, James Thomas (1861-1899) (review)
English, Harriett (1819 – 1881)
Entwistle, J (1890-1891)
Entwistle, Richard Holmes (1861-1919)
Entwistle, William of Farnworth (1895)
Entwistle, William Gleave (1835)
Entwistle, William Maude (1881-1891)
Farnworth, Randolph of Bolton – (1891 – 1913)
Farnworth, Randolph of Horwich (1891 – 1913)
Farnworth, Thomas of Horwich (1871-1920)
Fattorini, T Bolton & Skipton – (1903 – 1975)
Foulkes, Edward T. (1885-1891)
Garnett, William of Farnworth (1861)
Gilbert, Egerton C (1861 – 1898)
Giles, Albert Thomas (1881 – 1891)
Glendinning, Roger John (1879)
Greenhalgh, Joseph of Farnworth (1881)
Greenhalgh, Richard of Farnworth (1878-1911)
Greenhalgh, Richard of Farnworth (1901)
Greenhalgh, Richard William(1930)
Greenhalgh, Walter of Farnworth (1880-1920)
Greenough, Alfonza (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, George (1870 – 1891)
Greenough, Samuel, (1849 – 1891)
Greenough, Samuel of Farnworth (1870 -1871)
Greenough, S. & Sons of Bolton – (1870 – 1960’s)
Greenough, Samuel & Sons of Farnworth (1887-1871)
Gilbert, John of Farnworth (1872)
Hall, Frederick of Walkden (1895-1901)
Halliwell, Joseph of Bolton – (1887-1900)
Halliwell, Richard of Little Bolton – (1863-1911)
Hallsworth, Elisha
Hampson, R of Ratcliffe (1790)
Hardman, James of Kearsley (1936-1937)
Hardman, Joseph Thomas (1891-1948)
Hardman, William of Kearsley (1922)
Hargreaves, T. (1898 – 1900)
Hargreaves, William John of Farnworth (1913-1915)
Harris, John Robert of Farnworth (1850-1912)
Harris, Thomas Dibdin of Little Hulton (1871)
Hayhurst, W (1898 – 1900)
Heaton, Joseph of Westhoughton (1880-1881)
Hilton, Arthur of Radcliffe (1921 -1930)
Hilton, Edwin of Radcliffe (1911-1921)
Hilton, James of Radcliffe (1888)
Hilton, M (1874)
Hodgkins, Henry Phillips of Bolton – (1876-1895)
Hodkinson, Alfred of Westhoughton (1889 – 1892)
Hodkinson, P. (1893)
Hodson, George – (1753 – 1827)
Holt & Walch, of Radcliffe (1902-1913)
Holt, T (1892)
Hornby, James Farnworth (1895)
Horton and Arkinstall (1901-1914)
Howarth, Elijah of Bolton – (1891-1922)
Howarth, Roger of Bolton and Little Lever (1949 – 2025)
Hurst, Samuel of Radcliffe (1869-1888)
Hunt, Fredrick Augustus Watchmaker (1897)
Hunt, Frederick William (1870 – 1900)
Hunt, Frederick William of Farnworth 1897
Hunt, Sarah of Farnworth (1911)
Hutchason, William. Bolton-le-Moors. ca.1820
Hutchinson, Henry. (1861 – 1865)
Hutchinson, Richard (1861 – 1868)
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, James of Westhoughton (1895)
Isherwood, John of Bolton (1847 – 1881)
Isherwood, John of Over Hulton (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)
Jackson, John of Horwich (1881 – 1901)
James, W.H. of Bolton – (1895)
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)
Large, John of Farnworth (1803)
Lee, Albert of Farnworth (1897)
Lee, Harold Hague of Turton (1879-1950)
Lee, Henry of Bolton – (1843 -1853)
Lee, Henry & Son – (1853 – 1895).
Lee, James of Farnworth (1785)
Lee, John (1782-1789)
Lee, William of Bolton – (1890 – 1915)
Lever, Norman of Walkden (1929-1980)
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, Peter 33 Bolton Road Walkden (W&C 1895 Kellys)
Morris, Robert of Little Bolton – (1838 – 1843)
Morris, William – (1878 – 1891)
Moss, William 33 Lark Hill (W&C 1895 Kellys)
Mowcar, James of Bolton – (1828)
Murray, William of Farnworth (1869 – 1890)
Newton, Henry James (1899-1939)
Oldham, A & Son of Bolton –
Openshaw, John of Farnworth (1894-1900)
Partington, Mrs Isabella of Farnworth (1870-1881)
Partington, Thomas of Farnworth (1861-1870)
Parks, Levi of Moses Gate(1895-1901)
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 of Farnworth (1790-1817)
Robinson, John of Farnworth (1898-1920)
Royle & Rawson, ()
Royle, John of Bolton – (1738 – 1760)
Rowbotham, Charles (1901-1911)
Rudd, Albert of Farnworth (1901)
Rudd, James of Farnworth (1894-1901)
Scotson, Joseph of Radcliffe Bridge (1798 – 1835)
Shaw, John and Sons Bolton (1875 – 1884)
Sherwood, John (1853) 12 Newport St
Sherwood, W. 1864 Newport St
Simpson,
Simpson, John Marriage: 24 Dec 1854 St John the Evangelist, Farnworth John Howarth and Agnes Simpson Bride’s Father: John Simpson, Watchmaker
Sisson, Joshua Bolton – (1861- 1880)
Slater, George James
Smethurst, Aaron of Westhoughton (1883 – 1911)
Smith, Harold of Farnworth.(-1970)
Spencer, Eli of Bolton – (1820 – 1861)
Standring, Jeremiah of Bolton – (1742-1782)
Stones, James of Farnworth (-1835)
Taylor, A. of Bolton (1814-1824)
Taylor, Thomas
Thomas, John
Titterington, William of Farnworth (1911-1915)
Tonge, James of Farnworth (1881-)
Trickett, John of Farnworth (1904-1915)
Tritschler, John of Bolton – (1847-1872)
Tyson, Thomas of Bolton – (1848-1861)
Waddington, James Henry (1880-1905)
Waddington, John of Farnworth (1869 – 1882)
Walker, Michael of Bolton – (1805 – 1824)
Walker, Richard Henry ( 1883-1921)
Walley, John de Bolton (-1730)
Warburton, Henry of Bolton – (1722 – 1774)
Waddington, John of Farnworth (1869 – 1882)
Watson, Joseph of Moses Gate(1895)
Welsby, John of Farnworth (1882-1900)
West, George of Bolton (1814-1881)
West, James of Bolton – (1828 – 1877)
West, William of Bolton – (1828)
Whaley, John of Bolton – (1722)
Whalley, Robert of Bolton (1765)
Whitefield, George
Whittle, William of Walkden (1881- 1895)
Wightman, James W
Williams, John of Farnworth (1871)
Wilson, Thomas
Wolfenden, Samuel. Bolton (1893 – 1898)
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)
Yates, J.T. of Walkden (1925-1958)
Young, Richard (possibly not)