Henry Milward & Sons is an English manufacturer of sewing needles based in Redditch.
Henry Milward and Sons and its employees boast over a quarter of a millennium making needles.
[see Redditch Museum Family tree] From the first half of the 18th century, the name of Henry Milward and Sons became well known as the makers of good quality needles.
In 1930 two of the great needlemaker giants Milward's of Redditch and Hall's of Studley joined forces under a single holding company, Amalgamated Needles and Fish Hooks Limited, who formed in 1932 a separate manufacturing organisation called The English Needle and Fishing Tackle Co. Ltd (ENTACO).
However Milward's needles continued in Redditch until the 1950s, there were satellite factories setup during World War II in Evesham, Bewdley, Kidderminster and Moreton-in-Marsh.
A dozen workers left needle- and syringe-making to become experts in hooks, flies, devons, spoons and split-cane rods.
Young was just one of many fishing tackle manufacturers located in Redditch, just south of Birmingham Colonel C.F.
The next Joint Managing Directors were Basil King OBE and Alderman L. Haines of William Hall and Company, whilst Colonel G.V.
He was also responsible for Surgical needles and braided suture manufacture after he returned to the company after he saw active service between 1939 and 1945.
During the term of G.B King's Managing Directorship that Arrow Works in Studley was built, thus creating the business as we knew it to this present day.
During this phase, the last of the Milward family was in the business: Ian Newton, grandson of Mr Harry briefly was Sales Manager (Needles) until 1968.