Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,685 pages of information and 247,074 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.

East Lancashire Soap Co

From Graces Guide

of Accrington

Producer of Dr. Lovelace's soap

c1844 James Hacking of Clayton-le-Moors commenced making soap

1864 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership theretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, James Hacking and John Henderson, as Soap Manufacturers, at Enfield, in the county of Lancaster, under the firm of the East Lancashire Soap Company, was dissolved...'[1]

1877 Creditors of the Rishton Paper Making and Staining Co. '...William Henry Hacking and Joshua Hacking, of Clayton-le Moors, in the county of Lancaster, Soap Manufacturers, carrying on business as Copartners, at Clayton-le-Moors aforesaid, under the style or firm of the East Lancashire Soap Company...'[2]

1824 Advert. 'It all smells sweet and clean'. Dr. Lovelace's Family Soap. East Lancashire Soap Co, Accrington.[3]

1933 Advert. 'Love-Flakes' (Dr. Lovelace's Flakes).[4]

1955 Capital reduction from £100,000 to £50,000.[5]

1965 Proposal to have the company wound up. '...and to receive the Liquidator's report, showing how the winding-up of the Company has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator...'[6]

1965 Part of the paper-converting division of Oxley Industries 'The East Lancashire Soap Company made a useful contribution to profits. In 1966 the Board intend moving machinery of Mansells and Passmill to a new factory in Bolton'[7]


See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information