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Gaskell Deacon Works
Henry Deacon, 1822-1876
GASKELL-DEACON WORKS, 1859.
This reproduction of an engraving of the early Gaskell-Deacon Works shows a typical Leblanc industrial scene and the rural environment in which the factories were then situated. The Garston-Warrington Railway, the Runcorn Gap Railway and the “New Cut," the three means of transport which determined the siting of the chemical factories, are all shown in the picture.
Sulphuric acid chambers, Gaskell-Deacon works, Widnes, 1870's.
A photograph of the Coopers shop employees at the Gaskell Deacon Works, West Bank, Widnes, c1900.
Baths
Gaskell Deacon Baths Waterloo Road.
These were built in 1885 by Holbrook Gaskell for his workers and the general public.
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