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Betty Buckley and Son

From Graces Guide

of Manchester

Sometimes referred to as Betty Buckley and Sons.

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1826 Sale notice: 'Excellent MACHINERY, great part nearly New, for Spinning and Manufacturing Cottons, now fixed ready for Work, in a Factory situate in Chepstow-Street, Oxford-Road, Manchester.
TO BE SOLD AUCTION, By Mr. GOODIER, By order of the assignees of Betty Buckley and Son, on Wednesday the 21st day June, 1826, at six o'clock in the evening at the Star Inn, in Deansgate, Manchester, subject to such conditions as will be then produced:—
Lot 1. TWELVE Carding Engines, 40 inches each, with two working rollers and flats, in iron frames; 15 heads of drawing; two frames, 52 spindles, 9 1/2 inch bobbins; two roving frames, spindles, 6 inch bobbins; two stretching frames, 90 spindles each, all with iron beams ; fourteen mules, 360 spindles each, 16 inch rollers, all with iron beams; one double scutcher ; one lap machine, by Creightons ; one grinding machine, all in iron frames; making-up press; wrap beams with scales; doffing tins; skips; cans ; bobbins; mill-geering; steam pipes ; teagle and rope ; iron weights, &c. fee.
Lot 2. Seventeen nine-eights, and two seven-eights, dressing machines, in iron frames, with geers and brushes; six warping engines; two twisting-in frames; two winding machines, 160 and 120 spindles; one hundred and four nine-eights fustian power looms, nearly new, iron frames, on Messrs. Roberts, Hill, and Co.'s patent; two hundred and ten nine-eights calico power looms, fifty, seven seven-eights calico do. with geers, all iron frames; a great variety of mill-geering; steam pipes; counter drums ; straps; skips; bobbins; stone, wood, and lead cisterns; copper-cased steam boiler; smiths' bellows and anvil ; several pairs of vice; two turner's lathes and frame; circular saw; joiner's and other benches, sow-tubs, with steam apparatus; buckets ; one narrow-wheeled cart, with iron arms; set of geers; packing press; teagle and rope; counting-house fixtures; beams, scales, and weights; partitions, &c. and variety other articles, which will be expressed in and may be had six days previous to the Sale, by applying at the Auctioneer's, No. 6, Green-street, Manchester;! or of Mr. John Adams, Accountant, Half-moon-street; or to Messrs. Duckworth, Denison, and Humphreys, Solicitors, Princess-street, Manchester. '[1]

1828 Bankruptcy. '...awarded and issued forth against Betty Buckley, Robert Buckley, and Joseph Buckley, all of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton-Spinners, Dealers and Copartners...'[2]

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