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 244,500 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 Sweetbriar Street, Gloucester
1852 'On Thursday .... a lad named Daniel Drinkwater, employed at the Kingsholm Foundry, had his right foot badly scalded by some hot metal running into his shoes.'[1]
By 1855 the foundry was owned by J. M. Butt and Co[2]
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