Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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John Standring and Co

From Graces Guide

of Livesey Street Mills, Manchester; and Lion Mills, Blackley.

1837 'PRESENTMENTS. The hearing of presentments was then resumed, and Messrs. John Standring and Co., cotton spinners, Apollo-street, were amerced in the sum of £5 (if not abated in a month,) for a nuisance arising from steam, which is suffered to escape from the factory engine, and falls in showers upon the neighbouring streets, "condensing (to make use of an expression uses by the witnesses) the passers-by with water"[1]

1891 Directory: Listed as Smallware Manufacturers and Cotton Goods manufacturer.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Times - Saturday 21 October 1837
  2. 1891 Cotton Mills in Manchester and Salford