John Garside
of Portwood, Stockport
Iron Founders
1825 Listed under 'Iron, &c. Founders' [1]
1842 Sale notice: 'TO SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr J. E. Turner, (By order of the Assignees under an Assignment,) On Wednesday and Thursday the 23rd and 24th days of February, 1812, at the Hope Foundry Workshops, and on the premises in the occupation of Mr John Garside, situate Portwood, in the Borough of Stockport, CONSISTING of wrought iron cupola with fan and tunnel, two brass furnaces with iron plates, extensive variety of moulding boxes, core bars and plates, crane, ladles, and moulders' tools, and stove for drying cores, weight chain, catch lever and three legs for breaking iron, large weigh-beam and scales with iron pillar and cast metal weights, excellent smiths’ bellows with fire place and hearth plates, anvils, swages and smiths’ tools, one self-acting slide lathe 12 inch with speeds 9 1/2 feet on the bed ; one 4-feet back geared lathe with speeds, slide rests, &c., three 10-inch back geered ditto, and one 8-inch single lathe complete, lathe bearers with iron feet, boring bits, drills, mandrills, rests, and guages, grindstones with iron frames, glaziers and frames with speed shafts, six sets of stocks, dies, taps and wrenches, sundry screwing plates, cutting engine complete, drilling machine, and large quantity of patterns for shop work ; an extensive and valuable assortment of patterns in brass, iron, and wood, for every description of spinning, weaving, dressing, and power loom machinery; together with the stock of brass and iron castings for ditto, scrap and wrought iron, brass, lead, and steel, vices, work benches, and filers’ tools, counting-house furniture, storeroom nest boxes and shelves, iron safe, gas metre and appendages, excellent eight days’ clock, and steam clock[?], with a great variety of other articles. ....'[2]