James Harding and Company

Dates: around 1876

Location: Warrington

Specialities: flour machine wires, brushes, wire wine bins, wire gauze, wire window blinds

James Harding and Company seems to have been an otherwise obscure Warrington wire company that specialised in manufacturing a special locker device that could be added to the Davy or other miner’s lamps in order to prevent explosions in mines.

This article was written for the Wire Works Project 2020-2021, a National Lottery Heritage funded project aiming to highlight and celebrate the legacy left by the wire industry, which dominated Warrington’s employment structure for over 170 years, putting the town at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.