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Alfred Allen & Sons Ltd.
1938 trade advert. (Grace's Guide to British Industrial Heritage)
Deepdale Lane, Lower Gornal
The company produced metal fabrications mainly for industry. such as water tanks, hoppers and chutes.
In the early days they were mainly colliery furniture manufactures.
A works gathering at Alfred Allen, unknown date.

Photo courtesy of J. Powers.

ALLEN AND SON, LTD., ALFRED,
Lower Gornal, nr. Dudley. Worcs.— Engine stands and slings, jacking trestles, airfield trucks, water cars, etc.
[1940s trade advert]
Edwin Allen, of Deepdale Lane was listed as a Colliery Furnisher in 1901, Alfred Allan & Son company was established by 1903.
The company appeared in the same 1916 trade directory as Alfred Allen & Son Limited, colliery furniture manufacturers.
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