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.

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.

Robert Martin (Beccles)

From Graces Guide

of Beccles, Suffolk

1860 Advert: 'MR. JAMES CRISP is directed to SELL by AUCTION (under an Execution from the Sheriff of Suffolk), on Monday, 20th, and Tuesday, 21st August, 1860, upon the premises in Peddar’s Lane, occupied by Mr. ROBERT MARTIN, Millwright and Engineer, ALL the STOCK-IN-TRADE, Tools, and Implements, including various models in the foundry, ladles, iron flasks, fan and furnace, blacksmith’s tools, wrought iron, anvil, bellows, boring machine, three turning lathes, three bench vices, work bench, press drill, new six-horse-power high-pressure grasshopper engine, spur wheel, stone spindle, and various patterns, three mill stones, grindstone, &c. ; together with all the modern HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.....', [1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Suffolk Chronicle; or Weekly General Advertiser & County Express. - Saturday 11 August 1860