Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 146,701 pages of information and 232,164 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
D. and W. Grant
From Graces Guide
of Townsend Street Foundry, later York Street Foundry, Belfast
1870 Advertising as engineers and machine makers at York Street[1]
1872 Advertising as millwrights and engineers, iron and brass founders, Townsend Street Foundry[2]
1881 Advertising the sale of various items of machinery and pipework, presumably secondhand, at Townsend Street Foundry[3]
1883 Advert: 'PRELIMINARY NOTICE. IMPORTANT TO ENGINEERS, MILLOWNERS, AND MACHINISTS.
We have been favoured with instructions from Messrs. D. & W. GRANT, who have purchased the York Street Foundry (late John Rowan & Sons Limited), and have removed their business there, to Sell by AUCTION, on an early date, ALL the Valuable PLANT, TOOLS, MACHINERY, &c., &c, in their Works, TOWNSEND STREET FOUNDRY, Belfast, ENGINES, BOILERS, LATHES, PLANING, SLOTTING, AND SHAPING MACHINES, CRANES, &c., &c. Catalogues will be prepared and date of Sale fixed as early as possible.
M C. CLARKE A SON, Auctioneers.'[4]
See photos of iron lattice girder footbridge made by D&W Grant in 1889 to cross the River Mulcair (Mulkear), which joins the River Shannon near Limerick. Photos courtesy of Brian J. Goggin.