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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.

C. and H. Crichton

From Graces Guide
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of Huskisson Engine Works, Victoria Road, Liverpool

1880 Company founded by Charles Crichton

1899 Advertising as Engineers, Boilermakers and Ship Repairers.

1921 Private company.

1922 Advertising as C. & H. Crichton (1921) Ltd., Ship Repairers and Marine Engineers, Huskisson Engine Works, 4-10 Derby Road, Liverpool.

1949 Name changed.

1961 Ship repairers and marine engineers. 1,200 employees. [1]

The 1890/1893 25" O.S. map here[2] shows the Huskisson Engine Works occupying a small site bounded on the west by Victoria Street, on the north by Grundy Street, and on the south east by a lane and a railway viaduct. On the other side of Victoria Street was the much larger Victoria Engine Works.

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. [1] National Library of Scotland: Old Maps: Lancashire CVI.6 Surveyed 1890, Published 1893. Premises are at lower left on the map, to the east of the High Level Junction