Flour Bag Seal, Milner's, Snow Flake, Elland, Image & Found by Tim Crossley.
Found in West Yorkshire, 16mm.
MILNER'S / SNOW FLAKE / ELLAND // blank
From the finder, "Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion, Milner, John Foster [1844-1908] Born in Bradford.
He was a corn miller's traveller [1871]. In 1875, he established a flour milling business in Elland, and he was at Elland Mill [1876]. He was employing 22 men & 2 boys [1881].
In 1885, he moved to the nearby Woodside Flour Mill, Elland. The firm employed about 70 workers. They produced 33 distinct types of flour including Snow Flake, Elland XL & Elland MMM.
On 4th March 1892, there was a dispute in the corn-milling trade between the management and workers of the company. There were popular demonstrations against the new workers whom Milner recruited to fill the strikers' places at the mill.
In 1867, he married Emma Bower [1843-1897] in Bradford. Emma was born in Bradford
Children:
William [b 1868] who was a corn miller [1891]
Ernest Arthur / Arthur [b 1871] who was a corn miller [1891], an assistant in corn mill [1901]
Annie [b 1874]
George A. [b 1876] who was a miller's traveller [1901]
Ethel [b 1878]
Charles Herbert [b 1880] who was an assistant in corn mill [1901]
John F. [b 1882] who was an assistant in corn mill [1901]
They lived at Hill Field Houses, Eccleshill, Bradford [1871]
Southgate, Elland [1881]
Woodside, Elland [1891]
20 Pierremont Crescent, Darlington, Durham [1901]
Living with them [in 1881] was John's sister Eliza Milner [b 1851].
Emma died in Halifax in 1897 (aged 54). John died in Sunderland, Durham in 1908 (aged 64)"