Bradshaw and Blacklock
of Manchester and London
c.1830 Partnership established by George Bradshaw and William Thomas Blacklock to provide publications for the new railways. Became popularly known as the "railway printers".
1839 Published Bradshaw’s Railway Time Tables
1840 The title of the Time Tables was changed to Bradshaw’s Railway Companion
1841 On the suggestion of his London agent, Mr. W. J. Adams, Bradshaw reduced the price of his timetables to the original sixpence, and began to issue them monthly under the title Bradshaw’s Monthly Railway Guide
1847 Introduced Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholders' Guide, and Official Directory.
1853 Bradshaw died
1853 3rd October: Dissolution of the Partnership between Willm. T. Blacklock and Hy. Blacklock, as Printers, Publishers, and Stationers, at Manchester, under the firm of Bradshaw and Blacklock by mutual consent.[1]
Henry Blacklock continued the business as Henry Blacklock and Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ London Gazette 1 March 1859