The Weaver Refining Co Ltd - some dates
Some Significant Dates -
1624 - The Statute of Monopolies - Patent Law gave some protection to the rewards from science & innovation
1624 - The Act of Usury - overturned the 1571 Act and confirmed a new moral attitude to investment rewards
1647 - Liverpool made a free port, independent of Chester.
1670 - Cheshire Cheese shipped to London from Frodsham in 20/30 ton ketches.
1670 - rock salt discovered at Marbury.
1685 - revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
1687 - Isaac Newton 'Principia'.
1704 - Edward Wright & John Freame, started lead smelting at Gadlys.
1709 - First cargo of cotton traded in Liverpool.
1709 - Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale, coke and iron smelting.
1712 - Thomas Newcomen atmospheric engine.
1715 - Liverpool Dock opened.
1720 - Bubble Act & company restrictions.
1722 - Workhouse Test Act allows for the setting up of workhouses by parishes.
1734 - Thomas Patten opens the Weaver Navigation.
1737 - Dee canalised.
1738 - John Kay from Bury, flying shuttle.
1744 - Charles Roe erects the first silk throwing mill in Macclesfield.
1750 - Turnpike Trusts tackle the roads.
1752 - John Clayton builds a silk mill in Congleton
1757 - Sankey Brook Navigation, from St Helens to Widnes.
1759 - Josiah Wedgwood, industrialised pottery.
1769 - Richard Arkwright from Bolton, water frame spinning.
1770 - James Hargrave from Blackburn, spinning jenny.
1774 - Leeds Liverpool canal.
1775 - cotton mill in Stockport.
1776 - Bridgewater Canal, from Runcorn to Manchester.
1776 - James Watt develops his steam engine.
1777 - Trent and Mersey Canal opens.
1779 - Samuel Crompton from Bolton, mule spinning.
1780 - lower salt layer discovered at Marston.
1780 - William Cockshott starts his cotton mill in Northwich.
1782 - Peter Drinkwater purchases the Northwich Mill.
1784 - Liverpool imports American cotton. (- tannins - hides - bones - zinc - meat?)
1784 - Henry Cort, reverberatory furnace and rolling mills.
1785 - cotton arrives by the side of the Bollin in Macclesfield.
1795 - Ellesmere canal, Chester to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port opened.
1801 - first national census.
1813 - Sir Humphrey Davey recommends bone meal fertilisers.
1819 - The Factories Regulations Act restricted the employment of child labour.
1825 - Bubble Act repealed. Salt Tax abolished, Leblanc process takes off.
1830 - Liverpool to Manchester Railway opened.
1834 - Poor Law Amendment Act sets up Poor Law Unions.
1837 - galvanising invented.
1837 - Birmingham, Crewe to Warrington railway via Acton Bridge.
1846 - Corn Laws repealed, free trade.
1864 - 1st steamer on the Weaver.
1875 - Anderton Boat Lift, connects the Weaver to the Trent & Mersey canal.
1873 - Brunner Mond (plc 1881, ICI 1926).
1877 - 25" O S survey.
1880 - Neumann's, Ashton's & Witton Flashes appear as lower rock salt mines flood.
1882 - Mersey Salt & Brine Co lays pipeline from Marbury to Weston Point.
1882 - Dutton Lock raises water level at Acton Bridge.
1888 - The Salt Union incorporated.
1889 - Cordite invented.
1894 - Manchester Ship Canal opens.
1895 - Castner Kellner - electrolysis of brine.
1896 - first steel ship built at 'The Dock' in Northwich.
1903 - local electricity at Anderton. 1927 the National Grid.
1905 - Royal Commission on the Poor Law and the Unemployed.
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