Benjamin Davies (Manchester)
1838 Advertisement: 'To Dyers and Others. By Mr. LEECH, (by order of the trustees, under a deed of assignment, unless previously disposed of private contract, of which due notice will be given,) on the premises now or late in the occupation of Mr. Benjamin Davies, dyer, situate at Gaythorn, Manchester, on Wednesday, the 23rd May inst., at eleven o'clock precisely : The Whole of the Valuable MACHINERY and UTENSILS, comprising an excellent ten-horse portable steam-engine, by Peel & Williams, boiler, &c, in perfect order, main shafting and gearing, steam-boiler, twelve-horse power : capital drying-machine, with ten cylinders, by Webster, Birch and Co., finishing-frames, firing stoves, stove-pot and pipes, stone and lead cisterns, fly winches with geering complete, steam and water pipes of various descriptions, in lead and iron ; brass cocks in sizes, dressing, wetting and breaking machines, tubs and winches, copper size-pan and pipes, stiffening-machine, gas-metre, tubing and burners throughout the premises, cast-metal bell, and all other articles necessarv for carrying on a first-rate trade. - Also a Small BRICK CHIMNEY, and about 10,000 BRICKS.—May be viewed any day before the sale, and Catalogues and further particulars had on Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and 22nd inst., the premises at the offices of Messrs. KAY, BARLOW and ASTON. Solicitors, King-street; Mr. POUNTNEY, Accountant, 3, Princess-street, and at the Auctioneer's, 63, King-street, Manchester. the house of Mr. Duckworth, the White Lion Inn. in Blackley, the county of Lancaster, ....[1]
1841 Benjamin Davies, dyer, 14 Bury Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock [2]