Heywood and Belshaw
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]