The major technical improvement had been the introduction of the cylindrical printing machine in 1784 at Mosney at Walton le Dale near Preston: its impact is seen in the great increase in output of printed pieces, from 50,000 in 1751 to 20,000,000 a century later. Although mechanical and manual printing co-existed until the 1880s, 12 machinery rapidly gained ground during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Some of the largest of the early print works, which had remained in the hands of a single operator, were not maintained once this ownership failed. Bamber Bridge and Mosney provide instances of long-established works which closed through financial ineptitude but never re-opened owing to changes in the sources of power, the use of water and the supply of cloth.
Commission of Bankrupt
John Livesey, John Hargreave, Peter Anstie, Joseph Smith, and William Hall, of Mosney
THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt, issued forth against John Livesey, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, John Hargreave, of Manchester, in the said County of Lancaster, Peter Anstie, and Joseph Smith, both of the City of London, and William Hall, of Mosney, within Walton in the Dale, in the said County of Lancaster, Merchants, Calico-Printers and Partners, intend to meet on the 25th day of April next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, at Guildhall, London, in order to make a Final Dividend of the Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupts; when and where the Creditors who have not already proved their Debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the Benefit of the Dividend. And all Claims not then proved will be disallowed.
The London Gazette
Publication date: 24 March 1818
Supplement: 17343
Pages: 550 & 551
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The London Gazette: https://beta.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/17343/page/551
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Capital Calico Printing Manufactory
LANCASHIRE. To be SOLD by AUCTION, By Messrs. Skinner and Dyke,
On Tuesday the 3d of March, at the Bull’s Head, Manchester,
On Thursday the 5th, at the Hare and Hounds, Bury, On Friday and Saturday the 6th and 7th, at the Bull, in Preston, And on Monday the 9th, at the Bear’s-Paw, Wigan, To begin each Day at 2 o’Clock, by Order of the Assignees of Messrs. Livesey, Hargreave, Anstie, Smith and Hall, TERY VALUABLE FREEHOLD, COPYHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATES, in SIXTY LOTS, the Rentals amounting to V Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Pounds per Ann. (exclusive of rich Mines of Coal and Cannel)
Comprising a spacious Dwelling-House, Offices, Warehouses, Manufactory, and various other Premises and Land, in and near the Town of Manchester, and four Pews in St. John’s and St. Mary’s Churches at Manchester, ten Dwelling-Houses and Messuages, and fifteen Clofes of Land at Bury, Tottington, and Haslingden, and nine Pews in Bury.
The MOSNEY and BANASTRE HALL ESTATES at Walton in the Dale, consisting of a capital Calico Printing Manufactory, Moon Water Mill, two excellent new-erected Dwelling Houses, Offices, Coach houses and Stabling, and several Farms. A Printing Shop and Dwelling-house at Preston. Fifty Acres of Bleaching Grounds and Pasture Land, with Buildings, at Hoghton Tower. Sundry Farms at Pleasington, Rishton, and Clayton in the Dale. A Capacious House, Offices, Coach-houses, Stabling and Warehouses at Blackburn Seven Farms and valuable Mines of Coal and Cannel at Shevington and Coppull. The extensive Coal and Cannel Colliery, called Standish, near Wigan. And a Capital and well-constructed Cotton Mill and Manufactory, with every proper Building, Workmens Mefluages, and a Farm at Clithero.
The Estates are advantageously situate in and near capital Market Towns, and on the Banks of the Liverpool and Leeds Navigation, the Rivers Ribble, Darwen and Irwell, which will ever render them truly desirable, the whole Quantity of Land Nine Hundred and Sixty Acres of the customary Measure, naturally Fertile and capable of great Improvement, and with the different Buildings, are exceedingly well calculated for Manufactories, Farms, and Gentlemens Residencies.
To be viewed 21 Days preceding the Sale, when printed Particulars may be had on each Estate, of Mr. Jackson, Quay-street, or Mr. Wardle, Crow-alley, Manchester, at the Places of Sale, of the Printer of the Liverpool Advertiser, of Meflrs. Turner and Kerfoot, Solicitors, Warrington, of Meilrs. Westons, Solicitors, Fenchurch-street, London, and of Meflrs. Skinner and Dyke, Aldersgate-street, London.
Advertisement and Notices
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1789
Publication: Manchester Mercury
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References
Journal Article
The Calico Printing Industry of Lancastria in the 1840s by K. L. Wallwork
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
No. 45 (Sep., 1968), pp. 143-156 (14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/621398
JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/621398
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