Bleach Works in Salford in 1867?

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I found that my great grandfather is described on his first daughter's birth certificate in 1867 as "Labourer at a Bleach Works".  The family were living at 3, Sandywell, Greengate, Salford.

Was there a well-known Bleach Works in this area?  Maybe there were loads, and it could have been one of many.  I assume they were bleaching cotton, but I don't really know what a Bleach Works did.

This daughter, Rebecca Greenwood, was born on thirteenth July 1867 in Sandywell, and died in April 1871.  Her parents were James Hiram Greenwood (who was later just known as Hiram Greenwood) and Mary Ann, maiden name Roche.  I think they must have been married in Ireland as there is no existing marriage certificate for them in England, and Mary Ann was born in Dublin, Ireland, and Hiram's mother was Irish, living at the time of the 1851 census in Salford, then Hiram's mother, father and his mother's two siblings vanish and never re-appear, though Hiram, with Mary Ann and their two small daughters, re-appear on the 1871 census, living in Salford.  I assume the whole family was living together in Ireland.

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Irwell Bleach Works in Pendleton, Salford.

Grace's Guide has an entry or two ...

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Irwell_Bleach_Works

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This 1850 map shows the Springfield Lane Bleach & Dye Works near Sandywell https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/383476/399173/13/100873 you will have to change the zoom level.

Stan

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Irwell Bleach Works in Pendleton, Salford.

Grace's Guide has an entry or two ...

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Irwell_Bleach_Works

Thanks.  There is quite a lot of information about the Irwell Bleach Works in Pendleton, Salford.

http://salfordonline.com/15065-solved-mystery-of-new-archeological-dig-on-whit-lane.html

It sounds like a huge building on the banks of the river Irwell, which had been a cotton mill and was converted with a lot of expensive equipment.  It sounds as though they were processing cotton.  Incredibly interesting, this cotton had come all the way across the Atlantic, through Liverpool and up the Manchester Ship Canal, to a huge complex factory on the banks of the Irwell. 

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This 1850 map shows the Springfield Lane Bleach & Dye Works near Sandywell https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/383476/399173/13/100873 you will have to change the zoom level.

Stan

Thanks.  That sounds like possibly where my great grandfather was working, and where he lived in 1867.