John Holt and Sons

of Bootle Street, Manchester.

1817 'On Thursday morning about six o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out in a pile of buildings in Bootle-street, Deansgate, the lower part of which was occupied by Mr. Marsden, upholsterer and cabinet-maker, and the remainder, with the exception of two dwelling-houses, by Mess. John Holt and Sons, machine engravers to calico-printers. Although engines arrived upon the spot before seven o'clock, yet such was the rapid progress the flames, being led by a considerable quantity of dried timber, that before nine o'clock the whole was reduced a mere shell ..... The parties we learn are in some degree insured, but by no means to the full extent. Mess. Holt, in particular, are material sufferers, having lost several valuable and ingenious machines, together with a complete stock of tools and working utensils, the progressive labour of twenty years. ....'

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