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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

Bakers (of King's Lynn)

From Graces Guide

Robert Southgate Baker. W. P. Baker. J. C. Baker?

1858 Advert: 'PHOENIX WORKS. R S. BAKER, BLACKFRIARS' ROAD, LYNN, AGRICULTURAL & GENERAL ENGINEER.
Manufacturer of portable and fixed Steam Engines, combined and other Thrashing Machines, and every description of Agricultural Implements.
Saw Benches, Morticing, Tenoning, Grooving, Moulding and Planing Machines on the most approved construction, Draining Engines, Waterwheels, &c.'
N.B.— Fire Boxes, Tubes and all other repairs on the shortest notice.'[1]


  • c.1870? Small vertical engine driving scoop wheel at Middleton Towers Estate, Middleton, photographed by George Watkins in 1936 [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Lynn Advertiser, 6 November 1858
  2. Plate 74, 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 9' by George Watkins, Landmark Publishing Ltd