in Beswick, Manchester
1862 Advertisement: 'On sale, a pair of marine engines, 33-inch cylinders, 3 ft stroke, with side-lever motion, and made by Peel, Williams, and Peel. Will be sold very cheap.—Apply John Collinson, Reservoir Mill, Beswick, near Manchester, where the engines can be seen.'[1]
1904 Reference to bankruptcy adjudication - R Barnes and R P Hamell, trading as Burton, Hamell and Co., cotton towel mfrs and merchants [2]
1906 Manchester County Court: Legal claim by Edward Smith, engineer, of the Garnett Street Works, Bradford, Yorks, who sued Mr. J. W. Sackville, trading as the York Raising Company, Reservoir Mills, Beswick, for fifty pounds royalty on machine supplied for making watermarks of regular design on cloth, and thirty pounds ten shillings, the price of the machine.[3]