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 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.

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Scientific millers of Blackburn and Burnley.

Corn millers in Great Britain continued in the old-fashioned way, reducing their wheat on about 100 pairs of mill stones and dressing through wire. In the year 1872 they began to dress through silk. [1]

1970 A firm called John Greenwood and Sons, flour millers, of Manchester was one of a number of millers wound up by the same liquidator at the same time[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1888/03/09
  2. The London Gazette 28 July 1970