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 167,647 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.

Jonathan Harris and Sons

From Graces Guide
December 1907.

of Derwent Mills, Cockermouth, Cumbria

1834 Company established.

1893 Incorporated as a private limited company.

1914 Flax spinners and weavers, linens, artistic needlework. Specialities: flax threads of all kinds, art linens for embroidery, flax embroidery threads, costume linens, designers of embroideries for ecclesiastical and secular purposes, colour dyeing of flax fabrics. [1]

1934 Company closed.[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 02 September 1939