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1761 establishments in England

  • Bridgewater CanalFrancis Egerton, the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned coal mines in Worsley that supplied fuel for England's Industrial Revolution.
  • J. S. Fry & SonsJoseph Fry, a Quaker born in 1728, began making chocolate around 1759. In 1761, he and John Vaughan purchased a small shop from an apothecary named Walter…