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.
1818 Died: 'Lately, at Green Field, near Holywell Flintshire, Wm. Fothergill, aged 58, foreman to the copper company at that place for 28 years, and the inventor and patentee of the solid copper roller for printing calicoes. He was a grandson of the celebrated Anthony Fothergill, of Brownber, Ravenstondale.'[1]
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