Battersby Hats

Battersby's Hat Factory in Offerton, Stockport, first appeared on Ordnance Survey maps in 1895.

[2] The fire started on the evening of the 22nd and burned all night destroying the warehouse and "enormous stocks" of straw and felt hats and part of the working area.

[4] At one time, the firm was one of the largest hat manufacturers in Britain with an international trade.

For an Australian court case of 1935, James Johnson Battersby sent evidence that his company had the capacity to produce 12,000 hats per week.

[8] The factory was used as the first Hat Works museum before the exhibitions were moved to the newly renovated Wellington Mill on the A6 in the centre of Stockport in 2000.

Battersby's Hat Works as it appeared in 2009.
Battersby Hat Works, Offerton, after the fire in 1906.
Battersby Hat Works, Offerton, c. 1910.
Battersby Hats window display in Waterford , Ireland, 1928.