> I Eric,  > looking at an old map I don't see a Gun works. But on the other hand perhaps > they didn't advertise it was a gun manufacturer. However there was an Iron > works in Gorton. A lot of these places machined parts for all sorts of > industries and perhaps this place also made guns. What address (street) do you > show for the people you saw in the census, it might be local to a machine shop > factory. One of the machine shops I worked in machined gas caps for Centurion > tanks. The large Centre lathe I worked on I was told made Gun Barrels at one > time in another factory. > Cheers  > Mike Morris  > Toronto Canadsa  ________________________________ > >> From: Eric Millward <bruckshaw1@tiscali.co.uk> >> To: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:11:39 PM >> >> >> In 1911 there appears to have been a gun works in the Gorton area of >> Manchester because the census has several gun works employees living in >> Gorton. Does anyone know about this works please? <snip>