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S. Gratrix

From Graces Guide
1938.
Lamp post in Bakewell Churchyard, Derbyshire

See Samuel Gratrix, Junior and Brother

See Samuel Gratrix

Also styled S. Gratrix Jr. & Bro. Ltd.

Of Alport Works, Quay Street Manchester

1890s: Lead, glass, oil, paint, and colour merchants, brass founders, metal workers, sanitary plumbers, and electrical engineers. In the 1890s they had premises in ‘Alport Town’ and Bradford (Manchester). They were forced to move from Alport Town when the area was to be redeveloped for the construction of a large freight warehouse for the GNR, alongside Central Station. This was the subject of a court case, with Messrs Gratrix claiming compensation for having to move to a new site in central Manchester (Alport Works, Quay Street) [1]

The 1894 OS map shows the original ‘Alport Works (Brass)’ as an L-shaped factory facing two streets: Alport Town and Watson Street. [2].

The company supplied sanitary ware such as lavatories, cisterns and washbasins [3]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ [1] ‘A compendium of compensation cases, containing a summary of all cases reported in the Estates Gazette between January 1, 1892, and December 31, 1902’ (online).
  2. ↑ The Godfrey Edition Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Manchester (SW) 1894: [2]
  3. ↑ [3] WCs from the Thomas Crapper and Co collection
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