The Weaver Refining Co Ltd - some sources

Indispensible scholarship -

'Historical Antiquities' by Sir Peter Leycester, 1673.

'Bailey's Northern Directory' by William Ashton, Warrington, 1781.

'An History of Birmingham' by William Hutton, 1783.

'The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell' by Thomas Pennant, 1796.

'A Second Walk through Wales' by Richard Warner, 1798.

'General View of the Agriculture of Cheshire' by Henry Holland, 1808.

'Elements of Agricultural Chemistry' by Sir Humphrey Davy, 1813.

'History of Macclesfield' by John Corry, 1817.

'History of the County Palatine and the City of Chester' by George Ormerod, 1819.

'A History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Congleton' By Samuel Yates, 1820.

'The Philosophy of Manufactures: An exposition of the Scientific, Moral & Commercial Economy of the Factory System' by Andrew Ure, 1835.

'Manchester, Political Social & Commercial History' by Charles Wheeler, 1836.

'Sailing Directions from Point Lynas to Liverpool' by H M Denham, 1840.

'Memoires of the Life & Gospel Labours of Samuel Fothergill' by George Crosfield, 1843.

'Liverpool as it was during the Last Quarter of the 18th Century' by Richard Brook, 1853.

'A Guide through North Wales, including Anglesey, Caernarvonshire' by William Cathrall & Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 1860.

'The Manufacture of Saltpetre' by Professor Joseph Leconte, 1862.

'A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy' by Bruno Kerl, Sir William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig, 1868.

'Cheese & Cheese Making' by James Long and John Benson, 1896.

'Notes on the Sugar Industry of the United Kingdom' by John M Hutcheson, 1901.

'Picturesque Cheshire' by T A Coward, 1903.

'Henry Bessemer, an autobiography' by Henry Bessemer, 1905.

'The Grocery Trade, its History & Romance' by Joseph Aubrey Rees, 1910.

'A History of The Salt Union' by Albert F Calvert, 1913.

'Salt in Cheshire' by Albert F Calvert, 1915.

'The First Fifty Years of Brunner Mond & Co, 1873-1923' by John I Watts, 1923.

'The London Cheesemongers of the Eighteenth Century' by G E Fussell, 1928.

'Cheshire' by T A Coward, 1932.

'The Industrial Revolution in North Wales' by A H Dodd, 1933.

'The Wool Trade in English Medieval History' by Eileen Powers, 1941.

'Navigation of the River Weaver in the 18th Century' by T S Willan, 1951.

'Lancashire Coal, Cheshire Salt & the Rise of Liverpool' by T C Barker, 1951.

'A Country Parish - Great Budworth in the County of Chester' by A W Boyd, 1951.

'A History of the Calico Printing Industry of Great Britain' by Geoffrey Turnbull, 1951.

'British Enterprise' by Alexander Howard & Ernest Newman, 1952.

'Four Centuries of Cheshire Farming Systems: 1500-1900' by George Edwin Fussell, 1954.

'A History of British Livestock to 1700' by Trow-Smith, 1957.

'Historical Atlas of Cheshire' by Dorothy Sylvester & Geoffrey Nulty, 1958.

'Gadlys & Flintshire Lead Mining in the 18th Century' by M Bevan Evans, 1960/1/2

'History of Macclesfield' by C Stella Davies, 1961.

'The Agricultural History of Cheshire 1750-1850' by Clarice Stella Spencer Davies, 1965.

'The Genesis of Modern Management' by Sidney Pollard, 1965.

'Enterprise in Soap & Chemicals' by A E Musson, 1965

'A History of the Modern British Chemical Industry' by D W F Hardie & James Davidson Pratt, 1966.

'The English Dairy Farmer, 1500-1900' by George Edwin Fussell, 1966.

'Four Centuries of Banking: The Northern Constituent Banks' by George Chandler, 1968.

'History of Congleton' by W B Stephens, Congleton History Society, 1970.

'ICI, a history, The Forerunners' by W J Reader, 1970.

'A Hundred Years of Alkali in Cheshire' by W F L Dick, 1973.

'Mersey & Weaver Flats' by Edward W Paget-Tomlinson, 1973.

'Kingsley - the Story of a Cheshire Village' by W A Gibson & A W Waterworth, 1975.

'The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages' by T H Lloyd, 1977.

'Development of Dairy Farming on the North Staffordshire Plain in the 17th Century' by P R Edwards, 1978.

'A History of the County of Chester: History of the Religious Houses' by C R Elrington, B E Harris, 1980.

'Godric' by Frederick Buechner, 1980.

'The First Industrial Nation, an Economic History of Britain' by Peter Mathias, 1983.

'The Duttons of Dutton' by G H Buchan, 1984.

'The Greenfield Valley' by K Davies & C J Williams, 1986.

'Manufacturing Industries of the Greenfield Valley - 1750 to 1900' by Kenneth Davies, 1986.

'The Lowwood Gunpowder Works' by Glenys Crocker, 1988.

'Norton Priory: the Archaeology of a Medieval Religious House' by J Patrick Greene, 1989.

'Prelude to Peterloo, Warrington Radicalism 1775-1819' by Ian Sellers, 1989.

'Industry & Innovation, Selected Essays' by W H Chaloner, D A Farnie,  W O Henderson, 1990.

'The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1348-1500' By Edward Miller, 1991.

'Feeding the Victorian City: the Food Supply of Manchester, 1770-1870' by Roger Scola, 1992.

'The Origins of Cheshire' by N J Higham, 1993.

'The Rise & Fall of Parkgate, Passenger Port for Ireland 1686-1815' by Geoffrey W Place, 1994.

'A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution: St. Helens, 1750-1900' by Theodore Cardwell Barker & John Raymond Harris, 1994.

'The Tramways & Railways of Holywell' by J R Thomas, 1995.

'W J Yarwood & Sons Ltd, Shipbuilders of Northwich', 1996.

'History of Pedlars in Europe' by Laurence Fontaine, 1996.

'The Canal Dukes Collieries Worsley 1760-1900' by Glen Atkinson, 1998.

'Cheshire Cheese & Farming in the North West in the 17th & 18th Centuries' by Charles F Foster, 1998.

'Chemistry, Society & Environment' by C A Russell, 2000.

'The River Weaver, Cheshire's Artery for Salt & Ship Building' by Tony Hirst, 2000.

'Constitutional History of the United Kingdom' by Ann Lyon, 2002.

'The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy: selected essays' by Brinley Thomas, 2003.

'Driven by the Dane, Nine Centuries of Water Power in South Cheshire' by Tony Bonson, 2003.

'Capital & Innovation, how Britain became the first industrial nation' by Charles F Foster, 2004.

'Owners, Occupiers & Others, 17th Century Northwich' by Tony Bostock, 2004.

'The Old Chester Canal - A History and Guide' by Gordon Emery, 2005.

'A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700-1900' by Robert Trow-Smith, 2005.

'The Gelatine Handbook - Theory & Industrial Practice' by R Schrieber & H Gareis, 2007.

'Old Maps of Northwich' by Colin Edmondson, 2007.

'Shadowers Crossing' by Chris Kirwan, 2008.

'Meat, Modernity & the Rise of the Slaughterhouse' by Paula Young Lee, 2008.

'The Zinc Industry' by Ernest Alfred Smith, 2008.

'Salt & the Chemical Revolution' by George Twigg, 2008.

'The Mersey Salt & Brine Company' by Colin Edmondson, 2008.

'A Pocket History of the Weaver Navigation' by Colin Edmondson, 2008.

'Barclays: the business of banking, 1690-1996' by Margaret Ackrill & Leslie Hannah, 2008.

'Times Past - Kingsley, Acton Bridge, Crowton, Norley Revisited by Tom Wright & R.M. Bevan, 2009.

'Barnton, through changing scenes of life' by Geoff H Buchan, 2009.

Stuart Mousdale - Industrial Archaeologist.

David Hindley - Genealogist of Northwich.

And Colin Edmondson - extensive research over many years and many places!

 

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