Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,549 pages of information and 246,588 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.
of Preston, Lancashire
c.1851 Joseph Foster built a machine for folding newspaper under the direction of James Livesey (is this the correct one?) which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition[1]
1860 Established a business in Preston which became Joseph Foster and Sons
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