Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,694 pages of information and 247,077 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.
of Canal Foundry, Preston.
Iron Founders and Millwrights
1825 Listed as iron founders[1]
1827 20 HP portable steam engine advertised for sale by James Shawcross at a cotton mill in Little Houghton, Worsley[2]
A bell at Brindle St Joseph’s Church in Preston bears the date and name "1828 J. Lindsay and Co, Canal Foundry Preston" [3]
Foundry later became J. C. Stevenson and Co
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