Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Whitchurch, Skiddy and Co

From Graces Guide

of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

1787 Sale Notice: 'Soap Manufactory and Utensils.
To be sold by Mr Skinner ... THE VALUABLE PLANT and UTENSILS in Trade, for carrying on the SOAP MANUFACTORY in Cheyney Walk, Chelsea, the property of Mess. Whitchurch, Skiddy, and Co.— comprising seven large cast-iron Boiling Pans, ten Evaporating Pans, nineteen cast-iron Vatts and Receivers, thirty-one cast-iron Pumps, iron and lead Pipes, an iron Cistern, a lead Force Engine, thirty-two iron-bound Vatts and Receivers, fifty Soap Frames, four iron Beams and Planks, forty-two Half-hundred Weights, six tons of Rozin, a Fire Engine, several Wood Liquor Casks, a Wood Crane, Iron Kettles, Pokers and Rakes, a four-room Barge, three carts, Harness, Building Materials, iron-bound Casks, Bricks, useful and Firewood, and numerous other articles.
To be viewed on Friday and Saturday preceding the Sale; when Catalogues may be had on the premisses, and of Mr Skinner and Co. Aldersgate Street.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Caledonian Mercury - Saturday 12 May 1787