Hi Listers, As I said before, thanks to help from people on this list I have been able to find all of the c.1870's street locations for the WALTON family in Hulme that I have been researching, plus a couple of the glassworks that they will have been associated with. So thanks again for that. In return for the help, I should like to share with you the poignant story about the family which lived in Stafford Street, immediately below the Barracks near Cornbook in 1871, one of the streets you helped me with. In 1871 Thomas WALTON and his wife Jane lived at number 12 Stafford Street with their five young children, the youngest of which was only a few months old. He was a glassmaker from a large family of glassmakers and manufacturers. Sometime in 1873 he was invited to take up a contract to help the Japanese build their first Western- style glassworks near modern Tokyo (at a time when Japan had been open to the rest of the world for less than 20 years and still was more or less feudal) as part of a big push within Japan to modernize their country and their industry. He travelled out before Jane and the children, probably to find accommodation for them, then early in 1875 they followed. But tragedy struck for en route they were lost at sea in a monsoon. I don't know yet whether the entire ship went down or if somehow just a few people were drowned but that was the end of Thomas's family. He remained in Japan to see out his four year contract, 1874-78, and remarkably managed to start a new family back in Newton-le-Willows in the 1880s, producing even more children than by his first wife! He was in partnership with one of his brothers, a manufacturer of flint glass in that town, just a few miles to the west of Manchester. I hope to write a book about this British-Japanese glassmaking project, for my great grandfather James SPEED was the man chosen to follow on from Thomas's work in Japan. James had worked closely with the WALTONs in earlier years in Scotland. If anyone can help me identify some of the glassworks of Manchester or Lancashire in the 1870s and 1880s (there were several WALTON glassmakers and glass manufacturers in the area) I would be delighted to hear from them. So far I have found the "Medlock Street Glass Works" on the 1840s map, which I know one of the WALTONs operated, and have found the glassworks off City Road on an 1890s map, opposite the entrance to Russell Street, which might or might not be relevant to the WALTONs. But that's all in Hulme so far. From other addresses within the family it is possible they were associated with works in the Newton/Prestwich area, in Ancoats, and in Salford, anywhere between 1843 and 1900. Any help with any glassworks in Manchester would be appreciated. If you spot one, let me know, or if you have a glassmaker in your family, let me know! Regards to all Sally in Yorkshire