Turkey Emery Works
From Graces Guide
of Weber-street, Collyhurst Manchester
1889 Advert: 'MORTAR MILL ON SALE,nearly new. - Turkey Emery Works, Weber-street, Collyhurst, Manchester.'[1]
1890 Thomas Cooke was the proprietor.
The 1891 O.S. map[2] shows the Emery Works as a small building, about 100 ft by 60 ft, to the east of the River Irk, immediately adjacent to the south face of the viaduct of the L&YR Newton Heath Loop. Access was from Weber Street. The factory chimney can be see on the horizon of this 1901 photograph. on the opposite river bank was Irkdale Ironworks. The tunnel in the photo is the culverted outfall of Moston Brook into the River Irk.
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