Dear Listers,   Does anyone have any knowledge of a firm called  Ayrtons in Halifax between (roughly) 1916 and 1948 ? My great uncle was employed by them possibly as a chemist. Ann Davis Reading

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, at around 12:57:27 local time, ANN DAVIS <a.p.davis@btinternet.com> wrote: >Dear Listers, >  >Does anyone have any knowledge of a firm called  Ayrtons in Halifax >between (roughly) 1916 and 1948 ? My great uncle was employed by them >possibly as a chemist. Dear Ann, Your first port of call should probably be Grace's Guide, here: <http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page> A search for Ayrton gives 19 results, including an entry in Whittaker's Red Book for 1914 under "Druggists (Wholesale and Export)" for Ayrton, Saunders and Co. Annoyingly, there is no further information. Google, however, provides us with the information that this company was based in Liverpool. <http://cosgb.blogspot.com/2011/03/ayrton-saunders-co-ltd.html> Ayrton, Saunders & Co., may have acquired a factory in Halifax at a later date. Ask them. They're still going: <http://www.ayrtons.com/> Alternatively, the company archives seem to have been deposited at the National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library: <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=136-bas&cid=0#0> Contact details: <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp ?LR=136> Time for a trip to Liverpool? HTH -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson Born in the North Riding, but now a Soft Southern Jessie.