W. Singleton Birch and Sons
of 251 Dialstone Lane, Stockport, Cheshire. Works: Melton Ross Whiting Works, Barnetby, Lincolnshire
1890 Formed limited company. 'This Company has been formed to acquire, carry on, and extend the business of Messrs. W. Singleton Birch and Sons (Limited ) of Manchester and elsewhere, mineral merchants, producers of china clays, manufacturers of whitings, Paris whites, ground chalks, and lime burners, and dealers in mineral whites, plaster of Paris, French chalks, barytes, colours, and cements, etc.'[1]
1959 Whiting (lump and powdered), Paris white, ground chalk, chalkstone (as quarried, screened, or graded).
Owned by Rosevear Clays
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Echo (London) - Saturday 05 July 1890