Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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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.

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  • Whitby Ellesmere Port. Motor engineers and haulage. See Also ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • of Ellesmere Port, South Wirral See J. B. Butterfield Crypton Equipment ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • In 1805, the Wirral section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened, which ... 1813 The Ellesmere Canal merged with the Chester Canal, forming the ...
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  • South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 4FW. See National Waterways ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Museums and Collections ...
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  • of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire See Butterfield Equipment Garage Diagnostic ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • Iron Foundry and Show Rooms, Scotland Street, Ellesmere. ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Category: Portable Steam Engines ...
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  • Robertson Thain of Ellesmere Port. 1923 Company founded. ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • for the line from Whitchurch through Ellesmere to Oswestry ... 1863 The line opened from Whitchurch to Ellesmere for goods and throughout ...
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  • 1813 The Ellesmere Canal merged with the Chester Canal, forming the ... Category: Town - Chester Category: Canals ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • Later of Mersey Iron Works, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. 1857 Company ... 1905 Established the Mersey Iron Works at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Things to do - Cheshire Category: Canals - Infrastructure ...
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  • 1956 Plans for installation of a new plant at Ellesmere Port, bringing ... containers at North Acton, Croydon and Ellesmere Port (under construction) ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Oil Products ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Manchester. See Also Sources of Information Category: Town - Manchester ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • 12,000 sq.ft. at Unit 4, Olympic Park in Ellesmere Port, housing ST&039;s ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester. 1891 Directory: Listed as Smallware ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Textiles ...
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  • of Collier Street Saw Mills, Knott Mill, and Ellesmere Street Saw ... Category: Town - Manchester ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Chester Road, Old Trafford, Manchester. ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Brewers ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Oil Products ...
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  • of Ellesmere Port, Wirral, Cheshire. 1900 The company was registered ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Iron and Steel ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Cement ...
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  • of Stanlow, Ellesmere Port and Billingham, Cleveland and Wrexham Road ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Chemicals and Lubricants ...
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  • J & W Leigh, Ellesmere Iron Foundry, Patricroft, near Manchester ... founder, erecting the works known as the Ellesmere Foundry, Patricroft, near ...
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  • Engineer of The Moveage, Ellesmere road, Shrewsbury. The Engineer 1919/02/21 ... Category: Town - Shrewsbury Category: Biography ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Hulme. 1891 Directory: Listed. More details ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Textile Mills ...
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  • bitumen and lubricants. Held premises at Ellesmere Port. ... Category: Town - Category: Chemicals and Lubricants ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester. 1891 Directory: Listed. More ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Textile Mills ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester. 1891 Directory: Listed. More ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Textile Mills ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port ...
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  • Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Oil Products ...
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  • of Talbot Mills, Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester. (1961) ... Category: Town - Manchester ...
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  • of Ellesmere Street, Leigh. 1891 Directory (Leigh): Listed as Cotton ... Category: Town - Leigh Category: Textiles ...
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  • was originally the centre section of the Ellesmere Canal, and later became ... with Hurleston in south Cheshire, via the town of Ellesmere in north-west ...
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  • Road, London S.W.17., and North Road, Ellesmere Port. See Also ... Category: Town - Category: Packaging and Containers ...
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  • of Arundel Street mills, Hulme, Manchester. Also at Ellesmere Street ... Category: Town - Manchester ...
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  • of Talbot Mills, Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester, and at Longtown ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Textiles ...
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  • 1844 The Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company began discussions with ... that authorised the merger. The larger Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company ...
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  • its first bus service, between Chester and Ellesmere Port. ... Category: Town - Chester Category: Cars Category: Bus Companies ...
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  • 1954 New works at Ellesmere Port were built for the company. Leaded ... ethyl chloride, etc. Manufacturing at Ellesmere Port and Northwich (Cheshire ...
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  • The Ellesmere Canal was a canal in England and Wales, originally planned ... was originally envisaged. Part of the Ellesmere Canal has now become known ...
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  • of Talbot Mills, Ellesmere Street, Hulme, Manchester, 15. Telephone: ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Plastics ...
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  • 1935 Opened a refinery at Ellesmere Port connected by pipeline to ... Category: Town - Category: Oil and gas extraction Category: Oil Products ...
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  • near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Ince &039;A&039; was a coal-fired power ... Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Electricity Generation & ...
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  • NO. 29, TREFOR BASIN, LLANGOLLEN CANAL; ELLESMERE CANAL; SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL ... Category: Town - Category: Bridges and Viaducts Category: Cast Iron ...
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  • of Ellesmere Boiler and Tube Works, Water Street, Manchester ... notice. Repairs promptly attended to. ELLESMERE BOILER & TUBE WORKS ...
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  • boilers at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - Hyde Category: Boiler Makers ...
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  • Category: Town - London Category: Town - Ellesmere Port Category: Country - USA ...
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  • 1861 0-4-0T locomotive &039;Ellesmere&039; is on display at the ... Category: Town - Leith Category: Steam Locomotives Category: Ship Builders ...
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  • Ellesmere Port. Manufacture of Liquid Carbon Dioxide, p 40. ... Water-Pressure Pumping Engines - Whitehaven Town and District Waterworks ...
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  • the Snowdrop and then, hired by the Salford Town Council, came the SS Great Britain. ... 1922 The Stanlow Oil Dock was officially opened near Ellesmere Port ...
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  • William Haynes, of Rokeby, Stafford-road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, in the said ... Category: Town - Salford Category: Textile Machinery Category: Pumps ...
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  • marine engine at National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - London Category: Marine Engines ...
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  • display at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port (see photo). The Bengal ... Category: Town - Northwich Category: Marine Engines Category: Stationary ...
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  • at the opening of the Lobitos refinery at Ellesmere Port. ... Category: Town - London Category: Power Transmission ...
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  • Canal, and the Middlewich branch of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal; adjoining ... Category: Town - Middlewich Category: Iron Founders ...
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  • 89, Ellesmere Road, Sheffield, Model Railway and Commercial Model ... Category: Town - Sheffield Category: Models ...
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  • winches at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - Runcorn Category: Iron Founders Category: Marine Engines ...
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  • Railway Nantmawr branch to pass under the Ellesmere Canal The 3¾-mile Nantmawr ... Category: Town - Llanymynech Category: Bridges and Viaducts ...
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  • at Autherley, near Wolverhampton, and joins the Ellesmere and Chester ... Ellesmere and Chester canal, to Middlewich, on the Trent and Mersey ...
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  • Road - and the putting down of new sewers in the town of Oswestry. He was then engaged in surveying, levelling and preparing working plans for the ...
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  • and warehouses at Horninglow served the town. It was surveyed and mostly ... to the River Mersey, and thereafter the port at Ellesmere. ...
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  • in the works of Messrs. Pearson of Heath Town until 1882. to Messrs. Burnell and Company, Ltd., of Ellesmere Port. ...
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  • 1960 A manufacturing plant at Ellesmere Port was built. ... from the Opel Kadett - came off the Ellesmere Port lines.The Engineer ...
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  • transported from the foundry through the Ellesmere Canal and Pontcysyllte ... Category: Town - Elgin Category: Bridges and Viaducts Category: Cast ...
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  • 1934 Opened refinery at Ellesmere Port The Times, 19 November 1973 ... 1972 Closed the Barton, Manchester, refinery; the Ellesmere Port refinery ...
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  • 1988 Ashford and Ellesmere Port branches opened c1990 Becomes part ... Category: Town - London Category: Town - Birmingham Category: Town ...
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  • 1929 Incorporated as a public company; premises at Kingsnorth, Ellesmere ... Category: Town - London Category:Oil Products Category: Oil/Gas Services ...
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  • Category: Town - Newcastle-upon-Tyne Category: Town - Leith Category: Steam Locomotives Category: Stationary ...
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  • mentioned the Town Hall, Waterworks, Union and many large ... Sir Tatton Sykes and Ellesmere Memorials, and the Mark Masons’ ...
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  • 1870 The company was incorporated as the Ellesmere and Glyn Valley ... Category: Town - Chirk Category:Tram Companies ...
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  • Northwich Town Swing Bridge Winnington Swing Bridge ... This, and its near twin, the Northwich Town Swing Bridge, are &039;floating ...
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  • British branches at various locations, including Telford, Ellesmere ... Category: Town - Cheadle Hulme Category: Country - Sweden ...
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  • lime and bar iron across the Dee from the Ellesmere and Chester Canal to the ... Category: Town - Llangollen Category:Bridges and Viaducts ...
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  • oversight of the Ellesmere Canal – (1793-1805 - detailed design ... in Nottinghamshire, where he twice served as town mayor. ...
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  • Thomas Telford and William Jessop for the Ellesmere Canal, and completed in 1801. ... Category: Town - Wrexham Category: Bridges and Viaducts ...
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  • 1896 Premises and equipment of Ellesmere Foundry advertised for sale. ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Cranes ...
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  • T. A. Griffiths, Ellesmere Mills, Victoria street; 582 looms, printers ... Category: Town - Accrington ...
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  • at the opening cermony of the new dock at Ellesmere Port in September 1843 ... Category: Town - Warrington Category: Steam Locomotives ...
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  • Image:DOT_01.jpgthumb Former DOT works in Ellesmere Street, Hulme ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Motorcycles Category: Motorcycles ...
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  • Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co Ltd of Ellesmere Port ... Corrugated Iron Co at nearby Ellesmere Port. In 1920 they bought ...
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  • Part of what was originally called the Ellesmere Canal, it was one of the ... Category: Town - Wrexham Category: Bridges and Viaducts ...
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  • Gap, where the Mersey narrows between the town of Runcorn and a promontory ... reduced by agreements made with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company ...
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  • Image: ‎Im1934BCI-Spil18.jpgthumb1934. Spillers Mills at Ellesmere ... Category: Town - Category: Food and Drink ...
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  • communicate by a short rail-road with the Ellesmere Canal, by which the Iron ... him, and he met them coming into the town. They did no mischief. On ...
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  • operated, at the National Waterways Museumin Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - Northwich Category: Canals - Infrastructure ...
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  • dominant role in the development of the new town of Barrow-in-Furness, serving ... a large new mansion on the outskirts of the town, rented from the railway company ...
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  • were brought into the country via Ellesmere Port; they were intended ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Town - Trafford Park ...
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  • machine for Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Co at Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Town - Cardiff Category: Machine Tools ...
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  • Ellesmere Port Construction started: March 1916 - February 1917. ... Category: Town - Category: Ammunition and Explosives ...
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  • F. A. K. Hounsell, Esq., Bournemouth and D.A.A., Town Hall-chambers ... B. Head, Esq., Ellesmere. J. Roberts Greatorex, Esq., Mytton Hall ...
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  • Lane, and Springfield Lane Works, Salford; town office-24, Kennedy street ... Little Green Dye Works, Collyhurst road; town office- 6, Fountain street ...
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  • serving an apprenticeship in his native town, he was sent to Coalbrookdale ... the iron aqueduct by means of which the Ellesmere Canal was carried over ...
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  • docks were opened, it lead become a town of 20,000 inhabitants; and ... connected with the industries of the town and neighbourhood. ...
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  • Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, Ellesmere Canal; Dean Bridge, Edinburgh ... to work immediately at Canal accounts, Ellesmere Port accounts, arranging ...
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  • operated crane at National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port ... Category: Town - Manchester Category: Steam Locomotives ...
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  • in 1850. It was "my own romantic town." I remembered its salient ... across the Nor&039; Loch from the Old Town; the walks, when a boy, in ...
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  • 147 Ellesmere and Glyn Valley Railway 148 Ely, Haddenham and Sutton ... 391 Sunningdale and Cambridge Town Railway 392 Surrey and Sussex ...
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  • 9831 Parmiter, Hope and Sugden, Ltd., Hulme Electrical Works, Ellesmere ... 9844 Parsons and Dickinsons, Ltd., 1, Higher Town Road, Luton, Beds ...
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