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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

William Winkley

From Graces Guide

of Manchester

1805 Sale notice: 'To Machine Makers, &c. SALE BY AUCTION, By W. Cross, On Thursday the 10th day of January, 1805, at the Workshop of William Winkley, up a passage, opposite No. 3, Higher Hart-street, near Portland-Street, A LARGE quantity of Bay and other Wood, bar, hoop, and slip Iron, with a large quantity of every description of Tools used in the machine making business. €”Also Smithy Bellows, Cutting engine. Drums, Iron Troughs Rollers, Benches, &c. &c. The sale to begin at ten o'€™clock, and catalogues to had at William Burton'€™s Office, Half-moon-Street.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Manchester Mercury - 8 January 1805