Henry Heys & Co Ltd, Stacksteads

Henry Heys was a quarry owner who came to Stacksteads from Helmshore about 1848. By the late nineteenth century he had quarries at Brandwood, Facit, and Hambeldon. His sons took over the business on Henry's death and as Henry Heys & Sons took over the brickworks at Rakehead from the County Brick & Tile Co. On the death of the eldest son in 1902 the firm was constituted as a limited company, Henry Heys and Co Ltd. The brickworks did not operate for long and in 1917 when the chimney was demolished, had already been disused for some time. Henry Heys & Co continued in the quarrying business, having moved to Britannia in 1919.