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 167,685 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Swain and Co

From Graces Guide

of King Street East, Stockport, Newspaper Proprietors, Publishers and General Printers

1822 Established by James Lomax.

Published the "Stockport Advertiser"

1888 Incorporated as a Limited Company

1894 Editor and General Manager: William Astle

By 1914 the business had extended to eight weekly newspapers, covering a large portion of Cheshire, and one daily newspaper, "The Cheshire Daily Echo"


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