Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,711 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Atherton and Wood

From Graces Guide

of Hope Foundry, Preston

1859 Advert: 'MESSRS. ATHERTON AND WOOD, MACHINE MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, Hope Foundry, Lancaster-road, Preston, Beg to inform manufacturers, and the trade generally, that having nearly completed their new premises, they will shortly be prepared to execute orders for WINDING, WARPING, DRESSING, and TAPE-SIZING MACHINES; also POWER LOOMS.'[1]

Hope Foundry was no longer occupied by Atherton by 1877. By 1890 the occupants were Foster Brothers.

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Sources of Information

  1. Preston Chronicle - 3 December 1859