Sharples and Birtwistle
of Blackburn
1891 Directory: Listed as Cotton spinners and manufacturers. More details
1892 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Harry Sharpies and Jesse Hargreaves Birtwistle, carrying on business as Cotton Manufacturers, at Hollin Bank Mill, Lower Hollin Bank-street, in the borough of Blackburn and county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of Sharpies and Birtwistle, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as and from' the 16th day of March, 1892. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Jesse Hargreaves Birtwistle...'[1]