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 162,349 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Peter Parr

From Graces Guide
1848.

Of Feather Street, Scotland Place, and Down Street, Liverpool

1848 Millwright and Engineer, maker of steam engines, tobacco cutting engines, malt mills, snuff mills, hop presses, and machinery in general.

1858 Sale Notice: 'A PIECE of LAND, containing about 187 1/2 square yards, situate on the south side of Down-street, leading out of Richmond-row, with a FOUNDRY and MACHINE FACTORY erected thereon by Mr. Peter Parr, the present owner and occupier thereof.
The Buildings are modern, and remarkably strong and well built, and in excellent stale of repair. The main building is four stories in height, the two lower being thrown together as a foundry, and the two upper are prepared as fitting-rooms. The back building, intended for an office, is occupied as a dwelling-house.
The premises are nearly detached, having an open street on three sides, and are well adapted for the business carried on, or for a rice com mill, or any other business requiring strength and room in the buildings.
The purchaser may have the option of taking the machinery at a valuation. ....'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Mail, 4 September 1858