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 247,064 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.

Laburnum Spinning Co

From Graces Guide

of Upton Road, Atherton.

Founded by James A. Fletcher.

1906: Mill designed by Potts, Son and Hennings, of Bolton and Manchester. Five storeys, 120,000 spindles, intended to produce yam from Egyptian cotton. Sufficient land has been taken for two mills with an unbroken front to the railway. Machinery by Platt Brothers and Co. Triple expansion engine by J. and E. Wood.[1]

1929 Merged into Combined Egyptian Mills.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Bolton Evening News - Wednesday 30 May 1906
  2. The Times, August 17, 1929