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 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Robert Frith and Co

From Graces Guide

1811 Sale Notice: '.... all those four DYE HOUSES, the scouring house, the chymic house, with the dressing stoves and drying stoves, the print shops, the steam engine, and millwright work, with the cylinder, surface machine, dash wheels, and squeezers, and the rasping and grinding machines, callenders, also the fourteen stone vats, the copper rollers, blocks, and the printing utensils, and all other the buildings, machinery, fixtures, implements and utensils of every description, forming and used in the printing and dying works late of Robert Frith and Co situate in Hope Field, Broughton, near Manchester, and adjoining the River Irwell. The site of the above premises, which are fee simple of inheritance, comprises 27,127 superficial square yards, and are subject to an annual chief rent of £100. Also all the drysalteries materials which shall remain at the time of sale upon the premises. An inventory, catalogue, and particulars of the above property will exhibited at the time and place of sale. Also the fee-simple and inheritance of and all those three several good substantial and well built Messuages or Dwelling houses, with their appurtenances, situate and being in King street, in Salford, in the said county, now late in the several occupations of the Rev George Holt, Mr Joseph Smith, and Mr John Paterson, and subject to the payment of a moderate chief rent. These houses are newly erected, are in good repair, and situated within a few minutes walk from thr Market place, aforesaid. Also all that large aud well built Messuage or Dwelling house, with the appurtenances situate and being in Salford aforesaid, and fronting a certain street or place called Bank Parade, and now in the occupation of Mr Rees Thomas, and also a vacant plot of land, thereto adjoining. .....' [Continues at length]. [1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 1 October 1811