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 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 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.

Smedlow

From Graces Guide

Smedlow Ltd of Staley Mill, Millbrook, Stalybridge, Cheshire.

Cotton spinners and doublers.

Presumably successor to Staley and Millbrook which closed in 1960

1960 Notification was made under the Factories Act concerning employment of women and young persons at Staley Mill[1]

1971 Mill closed.[2]

1971 Applied for variation in licence to abstract water from river[3]

1975 Liquidator appointed[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Edinburgh Gazette 10 May 1960
  2. Manchester Evening News - 12 June 1971
  3. London Gazette 23 July 1971
  4. London Gazette 7 November 1975