Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,153 pages of information and 249,770 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.

Leek Chemicals

From Graces Guide

of Bridge End works, Leek (1987)[1]

1981 Part of Courtaulds group; transferred to British Celanese

1987 "Leek Chemicals serves 24 different industries including textiles, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber and oil"[2]

1989 A local councillor was planning her own factfinding tour of the town's three main chemical-linked factories — Croda and F. Ball at Barnfields and Leek Chemicals on Macclesfield Road[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. Leek Post & Times 29 April 1987
  2. Leek Post & Times 21 October 1987
  3. Leek Post & Times 18 October 1989