| Description | General Correspondence, B, 1786—1799 (215 items).*
Nos. 10-16: Joseph Baker & Co. The partners were Joseph Baker, Thomas Cooper, Kempe Brydges and Christopher Teesdale.
Bott Birch & Co. The firm was based in Nantwich, but the partners were as follows: Michael Bott of Nantwich, Moses Birch of Barton under Needwood, Edward Bowen of Birmingham and J. Randell also of Birmingham.
Thomas Bound, Manchester. Owned a factory in Manchester which was tenanted by William Kirkby. The same agent – Thomas Boothman – appears to have acted for both Bound and Kirkby.
Brades Iron Works, Rowley. The iron works was owned by the partnership of Cliffe, Hodgson, Hunt & Thompson, but the majority of their letters were docked as “Brades.”
Charles Brandling of Gosforth House, Northumberland, was a colliery proprietor. In 1793 he bought an engine for Middleton Colliery, Rothwell, Yorkshire, and in 1794 he purchased one for Gateshead Park Colliery. He was an executor to William Ord, one of the proprietors of Walker Colliery, near Newcastle, so he became involved with that mine which purchased its first engine in 1795. His agents were Richard Humble and his son Jos. in Yorkshire and Thomas Barnes in the Newcastle area, and these agents wrote on his behalf. However the letters are docketed as Charles Brandling.
Brooke & Pease. John Brooke of Ansthorpe and Robert Copeland Pease of Hull, proprietors of an oil mill. Brooke was John Smeaton’s son-in-law. |