Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,649 pages of information and 247,065 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.

John Ratcliff and Sons

From Graces Guide

of Tong road, Upper Wortley, Leeds

Printers' engineers.

1928 Deaths: 'RATCLlFF.— December 16, at Holly Dene, Tong Road, Armley, in his 90th year, CHARLES WILLIAM RATCLIFF (chairman of John Ratcliff and Sons, Ltd., printers' engineers, Leeds). —Interment at Oldfield Lane Cemetery, Wortley, to-day (Wednesday), December 19. 2.30 p.m. ....' [1]

1950 'LEEDS FOUNDRY CHAIRMAN DIES AGED 85. Mr John Dockray Ratcliff, chairman of John Ratcliff and Sons, Ltd, Whingate Foundry, has died at his home in Street Lane, Moortown, Leeds, aged 85. He began working in the firm's workshops 50 years ago, and retired from the position of managing director In 1948. He leaves a son.'[2]. Same firm?

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Sources of Information

  1. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 19 December 1928
  2. Yorkshire Evening Post, 2 September 1950