Trade directory

Manchester Directory 1783

  • Location Manchester, Lancashire
  • Date 1783
  • Entries 630
  • Record type Trade directory

Part of the Merchant's & Tradesman's Useful Companion series, this directory lists 630 merchants, tradesmen and principal inhabitants of Manchester in 1783. Manchester in 1783 was on the cusp of transformation — a prosperous market and textile town already filling with fustian manufacturers, cotton dealers and the merchants who would drive the industrial revolution.

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  • ABLET and Mather, Fustian Manufacturers, Withy Grove
  • Barlow, Richard, Cotton Merchant, Red Cross street
  • Hibbert, Titus, and Son, Linen-drapers and Yarn Merchants, St. Ann's square
  • Robinson, John, Fustian Manufacturer, King's street
  • Whiteley, Daniel, Grocer, Withy Grove

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