John Leigh Bradbury
of Manchester.
1824 Patent re threads. [1]
1825 Listed as a calico printer, Ancoats Print Works, 20 Medlock Street, Pin Mill Brow, Ancoats [2]
1827 By the order of the assignees of J L Bradbury, a bankrupt on the premises at Ancoats the whole of the printing utensils. These included printing and dyeing machines and calendar by Parkinson and a 10 HP steam engine by Sherratt's [3] (Bateman and Sherratt or J. and T. Sherratt)
1829 Death Notice: 'On Sunday last, in Manchester, very suddenly, Mr. John Leigh Bradbury, calico printer, aged 44. He was a most valuable member of society, an excellent son, brother, husband, and friend; a very ingenious mechanic, to whom the country is indebted for many very useful inventions, amongst which was a mode of printing calicoes both sides precisely alike, another for silk-throwing, and another for the present approved mode of manufacturing pins. He also produced some beautiful specidmens of engine-turning engraving, which were much admired by the managers of the Bank of England. He was the son of Mr. John Bradbury, whose travels and botanical researches in America are well known to the scientific men of all countries.'[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Mechanics Magazine 1824/08/21
- ↑ History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Volume 2, 1825 By Edward Baines
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 3rd March 1827
- ↑ Liverpool Mercury - Friday 9 January 1829