Peter Parr

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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- ↑ Liverpool Mail, 4 September 1858