EPW060696 ENGLAND (1939). John Rigby and Sons Park House Wire Mills and environs, Low Moor, 1939

Upper Park House Cottages, Low Moor Grade 2 listing - English Heritage Building ID: 336966 Mid C17 modest yeoman's dwellings, but with interesting fenestration. Two storeys, large coursed gritstone blocks and large quoins. Stone slate roof with corniced C18 chimneys.

Barn to West of Park House (Part of Park House Wireworks), Low Moor Grade 2 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 336965 C17/C18 coursed gritstone barn with stone slate roof. North gable end has group of 3 slit ventilators. Round arched similar slits to sides. Blocked early C19 segmental archway and blocked, round headed, ground floor window.

Park House - 4 Park House Road, Bradford BD12 0QB Grade 2 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 336964 Built in 1635 (dated lintel). A 2-storey substantially built coursed gritstone yeoman's house. North front has some early C19 alterations

There were a number of companies trading as John Rigby and Sons. This image is of Low Moor - Bradford, which was a part of John Rigby and Sons Ltd, whose Head Office in 1943 was in Salford, with another branch in Cleckheaton. Low Moor in 1943 was a "sales office", in 1951 "head sales office", but by 1953 described as "Head Office". The company made cold drawn sections in steel and mild steel (including wire for concrete), brass and other alloys. They made solid drawn pinion wire in brass, stainless steel, aluminium, nickel alloy etc. Their wire was used for birdcages, lampshades, florists wire and so on. Possibly not the same company, but in 1979 a company called "John Rigby and Sons Ltd", incorporated in 1929, changed its name to Norton (Steel) Profiles Ltd, registered office in Birmingham. This company was dissolved in 1997.

Park House Road