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 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Prestons

From Graces Guide
May 1931.
November 1954. Stop-Watches.

Jewellers of Deansgate, Bolton.

1869 Company founded by James Preston.

1905 Business was inherited by Preston's niece Gertrude Duckworth.

1913 Built new premises on Deansgate.

2005 Opened a new branch in Wilmslow.

2016 Announced the closure of its Bolton store.


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