This article is about the person. For the company he founded, see Leonard Fairclough & Son. For the fictitious Coronation Street character, see Len Fairclough.
Fairclough was born in 1853 in Adlington, Lancashire.[1] He apprenticed locally and duly qualified as a stonemason.[1] He set up in business on his own in 1883, initially carving funeral monuments.[1] He subsequently brought his son, Leonard Miller Fairclough, into the business which was renamed Leonard Fairclough & Son.[1] They gradually moved into general contracting building their first bridge in 1905.[1]
Leonard Fairclough Senior was Chairman of the business until he died in 1927.[1]
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