Isaac Storey and Sons
Isaac Story and Sons of Little Peter Street, Manchester, and later the Empress Foundry, Cornbrook, Manchester.
1837 Established as coppersmiths and engineers (Storey and Donaldson) at Little Peter Street, Knott Mill, Manchester
1851 Adshead's 1851 Maps of Manchester show 'Storey's Brass & Copper Works', whose buildings and courtyard occupied an area of approximately 50 x 100 ft, with the entrance on Little Peter Street, located approx 130 ft from the junction with Mount Street[1]
1869 Advert. Coppersmiths and brass founders. Manufactures of all kinds of brass and copper works for the locomotive, marine and stationary engines. Of Knott Mill Brass and Copper Works, Little Peter Street, Manchester. [2]
1900 Details of new premises with photographs. [3]
1910 Incorporated in United Brassfounders and Engineers
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Adshead's Twenty Four Illustrated Maps of the Township of Manchester, Corrected to the 1st May, 1851'. These maps are available on CD from the Digital Archives Association[1]
- ↑ Bradshaw’s Railway Manual 1869
- ↑ The Engineer of 7th December 1900 p571 & p574
- [2]London Science Museum Collection