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George Gilbert and Benjamin Sharp
1857 Gilbert & Sharp were described as stone merchants of Lees Street, Ancoats[1]
1867 Death of Benjamin Sharp [2]
1868 Hired a geared 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive made by Isaac Watt Boulton in 1867. The following year it went to J. Aird and Sons.[3]
1870 Gilbert and Sharp's tender accepted for constructing a bridge over the River Croal at Mayer Street, Bolton[4]
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