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 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 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.

Heywood and Belshaw

From Graces Guide

of Manchester

Machine makers

1804 'On Friday s'ennight a fire broke out in the workshop of Messrs. Heywood and Belshaw, machine-makers, in Tib-lane, Manchester, which was totally consumed, together with a large quantity of machinery.'[1]

1808 'NOTICE is given, that the business heretofore carried on between James Heywood and Thomas Belshaw, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, machine makers, under the firm of "Heywood and Belshaw," was this day dissolved by mutual consent. As witness the hands the parties this 5th day of January, 1808. James Heywood, Thomas Belshaw. Signed in the presence Wm Creswell, Attorney, Manchester.'[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Bury and Norwich Post, Wednesday 8th February 1804
  2. Manchester Mercury, 2nd February 1808