Edwin Butterworth and Co
of Pollard Street, Manchester. (1914)
Manufacturers of Engine Cleaning Waste and Cotton Waste for respinning, Dealers in Wood Pulp and all kinds of Paper Making Materials, Hide Curers, Makers of Buffalo Hide Sizing, and Woollen Rag Merchants,
1839 Business established by Edwin Butterworth.
1854 'Extensive Fire.— About one o’clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out in a warehouse occupied by Mr. Edwin Butterworth, cotton waste and rag merchant, Henry-street, Ancoats, Manchester. The building was formerly used as a factory, and is now known by the name of the 'Ancoats Mill,' but of late it has been occupied as a warehouse. When the fire was discovered it had spread over a great part of the interior of the building, and before the fire brigade arrived the flames had burst through every window. After about five hours' exertion by the firemen it was extinguished, but the whole of the mill was destroyed, nothing being saved except part of the outer walls. The building was insured for £5,000, but the damage in all probability will exceed that amount.'[1]
1860 advert: 'WANTED, New Vulcanised and Non-Vulcanised India-rubber Cuttings, Old Buffers, Rings, Piping, Goloshes, Tubes, Valves, &c.— Edwin Butterworth, Henry-street, Ancoats.[2]
1873 Destructive fire at the warehouse of E. Butterworth & Co, Henry Street, Ancoats, cotton and waste merchants. Building destroyed.[3]
1914 Manufactured Engine Cleaning Waste, Cotton Waste for Respinning, Hide Curing, also Dealing in Wood Pulp and all kinds of Paper Making Materials, &c.