Ancoats Bridge Print Works
in Ardwick, Manchester
The 1849 O.S. map[1] shows the works immediately south of the River Medlock, west of Ancoats Bridge. Bancks's 1831 map also shows a print works on the site.
1825 Baines's Directory list John Gallemore jun. (note spelling) as a calico printer, Ancoats Bridge. House: 10 Union Street, Ardwick.
1826 Advert: 'EXEMPT FROM DUTY. Peremptory Sale of PRINTING and DYEING UTENSILS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By JAMES SHAWCROSS, on Wednesday, September 27th, 1826, on the premises situate at Ancoats Bridge, Manchester, (by order of the assignees of Messrs. Gallimore and Foster, Bankrupts): the whole of the PRINTING and DYEING UTENSILS, consisting of one three-coloured printing machine, with extra surface, by Parkinson; large quantity of blocks, of excellent patterns ; twelve Birmingham rollers, surface ditto ; maundrils, wood, iron, and lead cisterns, iron pump, wrought and cast-iron pans, canroys, forcing machine, squeezers, and wash wheels, with geer, twenty printing tables, with teering tubs, sieves, drying machine, rails and bearers; stoves and piping, block press, tubs, calender, lathes, vices, benches; print and teering brushes; iron safe, pattern press, iron and lead pipes, and other effects.
The Sale to begin at ten o'clock in the Forenoon ; and Catalogues may be had on application to Mr. John Adams, Accountant, Half-moon-street: or the Auctioneer, Chapel Walks.
N. B. —The whole will be positively Sold on the day mentioned.'[2]
1834 'Fall of a Building.-
On Saturday night, last, a building occupied by Gailimore as print works, on the banks of the river Medlock, in Ardwick, near Ancoats Bridge, fell with a tremendous crash into the river. Fortunately the men had left their work a short time before the accident happened, or the loss of life must inevitably have been very great; as it is, we believe no individual received any injury. The cause of the accident, we understand, was the over-weightingof the building with heavy vats. The building itself was old, and the foundation was upon the soft sand stone rock, which has probably been washed away by the river, and rendered the building weaker.'[3]
1860 Advert: 'NOTICE is hereby given, that the PARTNERSHIP lately subsisting between us, under the firm of GALLEMORE & CO. in the business of calico printers, in the city of Manchester, has been DISSOLVED; and that all debts and demands against and moneys owing to the late partnership will be discharged and received respectively at the Ancoats Bridge Printworks, or at the office, No. 27. Dickenson-street. Manchester. As witness our hands the 8th day of March. JAMES HENRY M'KINNELL, JOHN BRAZIL, JOSEPH M'KINNELL'[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'The Godfrey Edition Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Manchester Large Scale Sheet 35, Upper Ardwick, 1849', originally drawn at 36" to 1 mile [1]
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 23 September 1826
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 20 September 1834
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 19 May 1860