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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Richard Waywell (Manchester)

From Graces Guide

1906 Advertising as a coal and cannel merchant, 385, City Road, Manchester. Best house coal, 11d per cwt. Trencherborne coal 10d. Best kitchen coal 9d. Seconds 8d. Best nuts 9d. Slack 6d. The advert listed 42 retail yards in various parts of Manchester.[1]

This 1896 photo[2] shows the retail yard in Tatton Street, Hulme, with a group of small iron-wheeled handcarts which allowed householders to take coal to their homes.


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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester City News - Saturday 13 October 1906
  2. [1] Manchester City Council Local Image Collection: Hulme, Premises at corner of Tatton Street and Belgrave Street, 17/09/1896: m27025