ne of Shropshire Archives’ largest collections of business). Joseph Sankey founded the business in Bilston in 1854, the Hadley Castle Works at Telford was established in 1910, and the firm eventually merged with industrial giant Guest, Keen and Nettlefold. You can find out more about the history of the parent company, and allied collections at Wolverhampton City Archives, via The National Archives’ online catalogue Discovery (