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 174,146 pages of information and 250,321 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.

David Macnaughton

From Graces Guide

10 South Bridge, 12 Princes Street, and confectionery stall, Waverley Station; and 23 Calton Road (factory), Edinburgh

Confectioner. Makers of Exhibition toffees.

1913 A serious fire broke out at the factory. There were no fatalities but some staff on the top floor, cut off by the flames, only escaped by climbing down a steel chain normally used to raise sacks.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Edinburgh Evening News 14 May 1913