Henry Street Mill (Manchester)

1829 Sale notice: 'Excellent COTTON SPINNING MACHINERY and other Effects.
By JAMES FROST, On Monday the 10th day August, 1829, at the Henry-street Mill, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester: ALL the Valuable MACHINERY in the said Mill, consisting of two excellent blowers, with exhausters, dust pipes and partitions; six nearly new carding engines, inches on the wire, by Gore; twenty-nine carding engines, in iron and wood frames, 18 inches on the wire, in good condition; four lapping machines: four drawing frames, single heads each, nearly new ; three roving can frames, 20 cans each ; four box organ stretchers 150, 140. and 168 spindles ; one stretcher, 144 spindles, with rim, inch rollers each, and nearly all as good as new ; forty-six mules, spindles each, inch rollers, and 14 spindles each six mules spindles each, nearly new ; together with several hundred cotton cans, large factory clock, desks and counters oil cistern, lined with lead globe lanterns, new mule rollers, feet force pump pipes, and copper quantity of and inch shafting and drums new bolts and studs for machinery, brass and iron change wheels, engineer's tools, bobbins, jobbing lathes, winding machine, beams and scales, and many other requisites for the spinning business. ....'

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