of Townsend Street Foundry, later York Street Foundry, Belfast
1870 Advertising as engineers and machine makers at York Street[1]
1872 Advertising as millwrights and engineers, iron and brass founders, Townsend Street Foundry[2]
1881 Advertising the sale of various items of machinery and pipework, presumably secondhand, at Townsend Street Foundry[3]
1883 Advert: 'PRELIMINARY NOTICE. IMPORTANT TO ENGINEERS, MILLOWNERS, AND MACHINISTS.
We have been favoured with instructions from Messrs. D. & W. GRANT, who have purchased the York Street Foundry (late John Rowan & Sons Limited), and have removed their business there, to Sell by AUCTION, on an early date, ALL the Valuable PLANT, TOOLS, MACHINERY, &c., &c, in their Works, TOWNSEND STREET FOUNDRY, Belfast, ENGINES, BOILERS, LATHES, PLANING, SLOTTING, AND SHAPING MACHINES, CRANES, &c., &c. Catalogues will be prepared and date of Sale fixed as early as possible.
M C. CLARKE A SON, Auctioneers.'[4]
See photos of iron lattice girder footbridge made by D&W Grant in 1889 to cross the River Mulcair (Mulkear), which joins the River Shannon near Limerick. Photos courtesy of Brian J. Goggin.