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 162,257 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.

Joseph Hartley

From Graces Guide

Of City File Works, German Street, Ancoats, Manchester

1895 listed as a file maker at the above address in Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory, 1895 (Part 2). The Directory places the premises on the right hand side of German Street (now Radium Street) between Naval Street and Jersey Street

1928 Goad's Insurance Plans Map 217 dated 1928 identifies the building as a file factory and hardware warehouse

The building has survived, recently converted for office use and named 'Sam's Foundry'. Close to 'Sankey's Soap Factory' which occupied part of the Beehive Mill


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