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 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Robert Knowles and Sons

From Graces Guide

Previously Lomas and Knowles.

1838 Firm established.

1852 Firm was split up when Robert's sons John and George took over and the business became known as Peel Mill No. 1. Robert continued works at the Round Hill Mills.[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. Research Note Knowles' Yarn Balance - Norman Biggs and Jenny Hutchinson - Textile History, 40 (1), 97-102, May 2009