A. P. Halliday and Co
of 6 Bank Place, Salford, Manchester
1849 Bankruptcy. '...Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the 19th day of March 1849, awarded and issued forth against Andrew Paton Halliday and Eliza Paton, both of Cornbrook, in the township of Hulme, in the borough of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemists, and carrying on business in copartnership together at Cornbrook aforesaid, and in Salford, in the said county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of Andrew Paton and Son, as Manufacturing Chemists,...[1]
1849 Henry Davis Pochin joined James Woolley and Mr Halliday in the partnership
1851 A. P. Halliday was an inventor who exhibited at the Great Exhibition
1853 Halliday died
1855 Patent to Henry Davis Pochin, of Salford, of the firm of Halliday, Pochin, and Co., Manufacturing Chemists, for the invention of "improvements in the treatment of certain compounds of alumina, and the application of the same in printing, dyeing, tawing, paper making, and such like purposes."
1858 After Wooley’s death, Pochin continued as sole partner.
Pochin's business was later called H. D. Pochin and Co