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 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Charles Akrill

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Charles Akrill (c1839-1907) of Charles Akrill and Co and C. Akrill and Co


1907 Obituary [1]

CHARLES AKRILL died at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, in June 1907, at the age of sixty-eight years. In 1878 he purchased the Golds Green Iron Foundry at West Bromwich, and achieved a reputation for the manufacture of chilled and grain rolls. He became a member of the Town Council in 1885, and held the office of Mayor in 1892 and 1893.

He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1881, and took an active part in the work of the Reception Committee at the Birmingham meeting of 1895.


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