Bank Meadow Iron Works
From Graces Guide
of Ardwick, Manchester
The 1849 O.S. map[1] shows 'Bank Meadow Iron Works (Engines & Machines)'.
The company seems to have disappeared into oblivion. In fact, it may have been nearly there already, for the map shows that east of the works was .... nothing. Just an ink-free area on the map, extending 700 feet until Lime Street is reached.
The tiny works, just 30 ft wide by 35 ft long, was located on Bank Meadow Street, at the end of a row of terraced back-to-back houses, running parallel to Ashton Road. Later, Ashton Road became Ashton Old Road, and Bank Meadow Street was swept away. The 1915 map shows that the land had been taken over partly by a school and partly by the embankment of the railway branch serving Ancoats Goods Station.
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