Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.
of Tower Hill and Vauxhall Yard, Bristol
Shipbuilders and marine engineers
Active from 1859 - 1924
1840 Acraman's opened a second yard in Bedminster, a well equipped yard which built a number of early steam ships.
1862 The yard passed to John Payne Ltd
As the Vauxhall Yard, it launched dozens of small vessels directly into the New Cut
1925 The yard closed[1].
A good account of the Company and its vessels is given in Wikipedia [2]
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