Hi Bruce, Glaholm and Robson were founded in 1859. They produced wire ropes which were used in lifts, mining, aerial ropeways, engineering, oil=well boring, naval and merchant ships, dredging vessels etc. British Ropes were founded in the 1920s and Glaholm and Robson's were absorbed into the group in 1946. The last five Sunderland rope factories closed between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. >From "Sunderland, River Town and People" Stan Mapstone On 18 October 2010 02:29, Bruce Dodd <bmdodd@rogers.com> wrote: > Hi, Listers: > > In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer > of Sunderland Rope Works.  Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says > he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. > > Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) > Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope > works.  Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). > > Thank you in anticipation. > > Bruce Dodd > Ottawa, ON > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

According to the National Archives Acquisitions by British Ropes between 1945 and 1971 included: R Hood Haggie and Sons, Tyneside, in 1959 with its subsidiaries Glaholm and Robson and Dixon Corbitt. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=197-dybri&cid=0#0 This date does not agree with the date in "Sunderland, River Town and People". Stan Mapstone On 18 October 2010 08:39, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > Glaholm and Robson were founded in 1859. They produced wire ropes > which were used in lifts, mining, aerial ropeways, engineering, > oil=well boring, naval and merchant ships, dredging vessels etc. > British Ropes were founded in the 1920s and Glaholm and Robson's were > absorbed into the group in 1946. The last five Sunderland rope > factories closed  between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. > From "Sunderland, River Town and People" > > Stan Mapstone > > On 18 October 2010 02:29, Bruce Dodd <bmdodd@rogers.com> wrote: >> Hi, Listers: >> >> In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer >> of Sunderland Rope Works.  Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says >> he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. >> >> Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) >> Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope >> works.  Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). >> >> Thank you in anticipation. >> >> Bruce Dodd >> Ottawa, ON >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. >> We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. >> SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len >> >> The Professional version does not have this message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >