Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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 Grantham
Iron Founders and Millwrights
1810 Richard Hornsby arrived in Grantham and set up Seaman and Hornsby with his business partner, Richard Seaman, a fellow Methodist.
1815 Richard Hornsby was an iron and brass founder working from Spittlegate Ironworks at Grantham.
1828 Became Richard Hornsby when Seaman retired.
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