Harry Bentley and Co
From Graces Guide
of Booth Street, Salford
- 1841 Listed in Pigot & Slater’s Manchester & Salford Directory of 1841 as Harry Bentley & Co, Millwrights and Roller and Spindle Makers, 17 Booth Street. Harry Bentley’s house: Wellington Square
- 1844 25th July: Partnership of William Jenkinson and Harry Bentley, at Salford, millwrights and roller spindle makers, under the name Harry Bentley and Co, dissolved by mutual consent [1]. It is possible that this was William Jenkinson of Jenkinson and Bow, whose premises backed on to Booth Street.
- 1850 Listed in Slater's 1850 Directory as Engineers, millwrights and roller and spindle Makers, Eagle Works, Booth Street. Bentley’s house: 85 St Stephen’s Street, Salford. The 'Eagle Roller and Spindle Works' is clearly shown on Booth Street on the 1849 O.S. map [2]
- 1852 Harry Bentley, formerly of St Stephens Street, and occupying premises in Booth Street, roller and spindle maker and millwright, and late a lodger in St Stephen Street, out of business [3]
- 1852 Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 20th March, on his own petition: Harry Bentley, late of No. 87 St Stephen Street, Salford, roller and spindle maker, out of business. - In the gaol of Lancaster [4]
- 1853, 22nd October, Patent No. 2441 issued to Harry Bentley, roller and spindle maker and millwright, for improvements in steam-boilers, and in the method of setting or fixing the same The London Gazette, January 30th, 1857
- 1854 Harry Bentley, late a lodger at 87 St Stephen’s Street, Salford, out of business, Insolvent. [5]
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