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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

George Greaves (Manchester)

From Graces Guide

of Manchester

1827 Sale notice: 'EXEMPT FROM DUTY. PEREMPTORILY BE SOLD BY AUCTION, At a Warehouse situate in Parsonage-lane, St. Mary's, on Tuesday the 27th instant, MACHINERY and STOCK in TRADE, belonging to the estate of George Greaves, machine-maker, bankrupt, consisting of one Scotch dressing machine, one 40 inch spreading machine, one 36 inch ditto, both on the latest and most improved principle. PATTERNS in Wood and Iron, for various sorts of Machinery; also valuable set of SMITHS' and TURNERS' TOOLS, &c. &c. ...'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Courier - Saturday 24 March 1827