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 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 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.

Henry Briggs, Son and Co

From Graces Guide

Colliery Owners, of Whitwood Collieries, Normanton, Yorks.

1865 Incorporated as a Limited Company by Henry Currer Briggs. The company was registered on 5 April, to acquire the collieries of the firm of the same name. [1]

1959 Offered to acquire Settle Speakman and British Benzol and Coal Distillation Ltd[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. The Times, Oct 08