John Latham and Co
of Manchester
1825 Listed as John Latham & Co as cotton spinners, calico printers & mfrs. 55 Market Street and 2 Wakefield Street, Chorlton Row. John Latham's house - Oxford Street, Chorlton Row.[1]
1834 Advertisement: 'TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, …. Cotton Mill or Factory, with the engine-house attached thereto and now in the occupation of Messrs. John Latham and Co.; and also of and in the vacant plot of LAND, adjoining to the said factory. containing, together with the site of 7356 square yards or thereabouts, and bounded on the westerly and northerly sides thereof by Great Marlborough and Wakefield-streets, in Manchester, and on the southerly side thereof by the River Medlock—The mill is thirty yards long by sixteen yards and two feet wide, inside measure, and is five stories in height. The premises are in the immediate neighbourhood of Oxford-road, and about half a mile from the Manchester Exchange—…….[2]
Location
The 1848 36" O.S map[3] shows the mill located on the River Medlock, at the eastern end of the notorious slum dwellings in the area known as 'Little Ireland'. Immediately north west of the mill was a rope walk, and beyond that was the elevated Oxford Road railway station. Immediately east was a long narrow building marked as a 'Machine and Tool Manufactory'.
Bancks & Co's 1831 map shows the mill as 'Lathom's Cotton Mill'.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Vol II, 1825, by Edward Baines
- ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 6th December 1834
- ↑ 'The Godfrey Edition' 'Old Ordnance Survey Town Plans: Manchester Sheet 33: ‘Manchester (Oxford Street & Gaythorn)' [1]