Gaythorn Dye Works

of Gaythorn, Manchester

1842 Advertisement: 'To Fustian Dyers and Others. By Mr. JAMES LEECH, on Wednesday, the 6th July, at the Gaythorn Dye Works; sale to commence at eleven o'clock precisely: THE Whole of the DYING UTENSILS, DRUGS, and DRYSALTERIES, comprising new drying, stiffening, breaking, and brushing machines, by the first machinists, and of most approved description; large wood cisterns, scalding seives, tubs, winces, large wood spouts, and all the minor articles, complete; likewise two, three, and four-inch iron and lead pipes, with corresponding brass taps, all new. The drugs and drysalteries consist of ashes, alum, annatto, bleaching powder, copperas, sulphate of copper, fustic, logwood, peach wood, and shumac. Also a powerful van horse, a new set of geers, &c, two caravans, one box cart, wheelbarrows, new and old timber, new dressing irons, fire irons, and all the requisites necessary and useful in the trade. On view the 2nd, 4th, and 5th July, and on the morning of sale.—Every information may be had on application to the Auctioneer, 13, Chapel Walks.'

The 1849 O.S. map shows the Gaythorn Dye Works and its reservoir located immediately south of the Rochdale Canal adjacent to Lock No. 89, and bounded on the south side by South Junction Street and the M&SJR viaduct. Adshead's 1851 map identifies Goodier's Dye Works here. The reservoir was probably originally fed by the River Tib, but the 1849 map shows a short tunnel connecting the reservoir with the canal. South of the viaduct and bounded by Albion Street and by the River Medlock was a plot of land containing dense housing and some highly undesirable neighbours in the form of Gaythorn Chemical Works (Coppock's), Bone and Size Works, Finch Street Size Works (belonging to Mary Bakewell), Gaythorn Tannery, Hood's Dye Works and, immediately west of the Tib, Medlock Bridge Mill and Gaythorn Smallware Manufactory. The 1894 O.S. map shows that this 'mixed industrial and domestic development' had been improved by the construction of Gaythorn Gas Works, which overlayed everything, Rivers Medlock and Tib included. At the north western corner of this area, at the end of the larger group of houses, was a pub named the Gaythorn Vaults (1849 map) and Gaythorn Tavern (1851 map), and survived as The Gaythorn until recently.

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