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.
The partnership of Thomas Jackson and Alfred William Bean, of Danson Park, Welling, Kent.
1840 Jackson and Bean, railway contractors[1]
1843-7 Messrs Jackson and Bean undertook the refurbishment of the Caledonian Canal
1847 Started construction of breakwater on Alderney; they took a large contract for building a breakwater and fortifications on Alderney. This work lasted for 25 years.
1854 Constructed Tyne Dock at Jarrow [2]
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